Vitamin C for cardiac surgery patients: several errors in a published meta-analysis

Harri Hemilä and Elizabeth Chalker

Reference 51

While our paper about vitamin C and mechanical ventilation was in press:
        Vitamin C may reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients: a meta-regression analysis
        https://doi.org/10.1186/s40560-020-0432-y
        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7006137
we did not have available the DOI for our comment in Nutrients, which is our reference 51 in the above paper.

This is the final version of our Nutrients (2020) comment (ie ref 51):

https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12020586
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7071442

and this is the supplementary file for the comment; it shows details and many further problems in the Hill et al paper:
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/2/586/s1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7071442/bin/nutrients-12-00586-s001.pdf

The Hill et al (2019) paper (our refrence 50) was published as:
https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11092103
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6769534

Harri Hemilä
Department of Public Health
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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