Dietary Vitamin C Deficiency Is Associated With Health-Related Quality of Life and Cardiac Event-free Survival in Adults With Heart Failure.
CONCLUSION: Vitamin C deficiency was associated with poorer HRQOL and shorter cardiac event-free survival in patients with HF. The findings suggest that encouraging patients with HF to consume a diet rich in fruits/vegetables to prevent vitamin C deficiency may lead to better health outcomes.
PMID: 30211815 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Wu JR, Song EK, Moser DK, Lennie TA Tags: J Cardiovasc Nurs Source Type: research
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