Ten most important findings

by Harri Hemilä


Department of Public Health
University of Helsinki, Finland
harri.hemila@helsinki.fi
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila
May 24, 2023

1. Zinc lozenges can shorten the duration of the common cold
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/zinc.htm

2. Vitamin C may increase the recovery rate of outpatient cases of COVID by up to 70%
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitC_ICU.htm

3. Vitamin C may decrease mortality due to sepsis by up to 81%
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitC_ICU.htm

4. Vitamin C can decrease the incidence of atrial fibrillation and the duration of ICU stay
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitC_af.htm

5. Vitamin C may improve left ventricular ejection fraction
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitC_af.htm

6. Vitamin C (>1 g/d) shortens the duration of the common cold in adults by 8% and in children by 18%
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitC_colds.htm

7. Vitamin C supplementation decreases the risk of the common cold by 50% in people under heavy acute physical stress
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitCE_exercise.htm
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitC_colds.htm

8. Thomas Chalmers' influential review (1975) on vitamin C and the common cold is inconsistent with original reports:
there are calculation errors
and it has misled the public opinion on vitamin C for over 4 decades
https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/20335   pp. 36-38
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6395595    pp. 36-38
https://doi.org/10.3390/life12010062
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/flawed_vitC_colds.htm

9Vitamin E may increase life expectancy by 2 years in some groups of older males
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitE_mortality.htm

10. Vitamin E supplementation can decrease and increase the risk of pneumonia in some groups of males
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitE_respinf.htm
https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/vitCE_exercise.htm