{"id":3878,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-improves-recovery-after-heart-surgery\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:44","slug":"vitamin-c-improves-recovery-after-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-improves-recovery-after-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin C improves recovery after heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>The present study investigated whether dietary supplementation with vitamin C can reduce the length of ICU and hospital stay after cardiac surgery. The study involved 290 adults who received 2 g of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) intravenously immediately before surgery. Daily oral administration of 1 g of vitamin C was also given for the first 4 days after surgery. The length of hospital stay and some complications common after cardiac surgery were reduced by vitamin C treatment. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Anita Sadeghpour, Azin Alizadehasl, Majid Kyavar, Tahereh Sadeghi, Jalal Moludi, Farhad Gholizadeh, Ziae Totonchi, Behshid Ghadrdoost<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4350190\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary The present study investigated whether dietary supplementation with vitamin C can reduce the length of ICU and hospital stay after cardiac surgery. The study involved 290 adults who received 2 g of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) intravenously immediately before surgery. Daily oral administration of 1 g of vitamin C was also given for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6288,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/6288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}