title: [Vitamin C. From scurvy to the ideal vitamin balance].
abstract: Scurvy is caused by severe deficiency of vitamin C or ascorbic acid, and is usually diagnosed by the overt clinical signs which appear at an advanced stage. Laboratory examinations, and in particular ascorbic acid assays, do not yet enable subclinical vitamin C deficiency to be reliably detected; hence the importance of knowing the situation which expose to this deficiency.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Hépato-Gastro-Entérologie, Hôpital Delafontaine, Saint-Denis.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Labadie
mesh_terms: D001205:Ascorbic Acid / Q000032:analysis / Q000502:physiology*; D004032:Diet; D006801:Humans; D012614:Scurvy / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D001205:Ascorbic Acid
vernacular_title: Vitamine C. Du scorbut à l'équilibre vitaminique idéal.