Can vitamin C improve sepsis outcomes? A new study offers reason for skepticism.
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Providers in recent years have turned to vitamin C to treat sepsis based on limited evidence, but a new, largest-of-its-kind study published in
JAMA found vitamin C didn't improve sepsis patients' outcomes by a statistically significant margin, Richard Harris reports for NPR's "Shots."
Despite those new findings, however, some experts say there may still be hope for vitamin C as a sepsis treatment.
Evidence on vitamin C, sepsis has long been unclear
According to Harris, the evidence on whether vitamin C could improve sepsis outcomes has long been confusing.