Saturday, August 06, 2005 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: health news, Natural News, nutrition |
The blood concentrations of vitamin C were markedly lower in patients with severe asthma compared to subjects with mild asthma or those without asthma, and this difference was observed in both males and females. An unexpected but interesting observation was that patients with severe asthma were more overweight, had a higher intake of fat and a higher blood cholesterol concentration compared with the other subjects. In addition, lung function was better in subjects with high blood vitamin C and low blood cholesterol concentrations.
These results suggest that patients, and particularly males, with severe asthma may benefit from modification of their diet to ensure an adequate intake of antioxidants such as vitamin C.
Further studies are required to confirm whether this strategy, which would be relatively easy to implement, may help in decreasing the morbidity and socioeconomic burden associated with severe asthma.
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