Report for: Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold

Title	Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold
Published in	Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2013
DOI	10.1002/14651858.cd000980.pub4
Pubmed ID	23440782
Authors	Harri Hemilä, Elizabeth Chalker
Abstract	Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for preventing and treating the common cold has been a subject of controversy for 70 years.[show]

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Country	Count	As %
Japan	110	11%
Saudi Arabia	72	7%
United States	45	5%
United Kingdom	42	4%
Spain	28	3%
Canada	16	2%
Netherlands	13	1%
Mexico	12	1%
Germany	11	1%
Other	107	11%
Unknown	538	54%

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	886	89%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	55	6%
Scientists	37	4%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	14	1%
Unknown	2	<1%

Country	Count	As %
United Kingdom	4	<1%
Peru	2	<1%
Finland	2	<1%
Brazil	2	<1%
Paraguay	1	<1%
Czechia	1	<1%
Norway	1	<1%
Netherlands	1	<1%
Canada	1	<1%
Other	4	<1%
Unknown	552	97%

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Bachelor	141	25%
Student > Master	86	15%
Researcher	82	14%
Student > Ph. D. Student	50	9%
Other	41	7%
Other	125	22%
Unknown	46	8%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	210	37%
Nursing and Health Professions	62	11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	56	10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	33	6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science	23	4%
Other	126	22%
Unknown	61	11%

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