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Ascorbic acid and long-term anticonvulsant therapy in children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2008

K. P. Dawson  and
Anne Duncan
K. P. Dawson
Affiliation:
Paediatric Department, Law Hospital, Carluke, Lanarkshire ML8 5ER
Anne Duncan
Affiliation:
The Department of Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow
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Abstract

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1. Forty-eight children, who were long-term hospital patients, were investigated to assess their leucocyte ascorbic acid status.

2. Twenty-nine children had been receiving long-term anticonvulsant therapy, and these children did not have a significantly lower level of ascorbic acid than the untreated group, which did not have epilepsy.

3. The ascorbic acid levels of all subjects were low and seventeen had levels between 7·3 and 16·0 μg/108 white blood cells.

Type
Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , May 1975 , pp. 315 - 318
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1975

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