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Alcohol Abuse or Alcohol Withdrawal: Risk of Latent Scurvy

NCT03467022 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 47

Last updated 2018-03-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Scurvy, or latent scurvy, may be underestimated in developed countries, but continue to be described, often as case report. Little is known about the prevalence of vitamin C deficiency in a specific population as withdrawal alcoholics and about his possible consequences, latent scurvy.

In an observational study, the investigators will evaluate prospectively the prevalence of vitamin C deficiency in alcoholic withdrawal patients, its correlation with latent scurvy, mainly tiredness and weakness, and the evolution of the latter at three months after oral vitamin C supplementation.

Conditions

  • Alcoholics

Interventions

DRUG

Vitamin C

Patients depleted or deficient in vitamin C by blood test were supplemented orally in vitamin C 1 gram per day for three months

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • SCP Battistelli

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel Battistelli, MD · Nouvelle Clinique des Trois Frontieres Saint-Louis

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-02
Primary Completion
2016-11-30
Completion
2017-03-30

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