Since most of us could not attend the ESPEN congress in Lyon this year, we were excited to hear the
highlights of the programme during the After ESPEN conference organized by NESPEN.
A prospective cohort study was conducted in Nutrients to evaluate the effect of vitamin D deficiency on sepsis. The conclusion was that 74.4% of sepsis patients suffered from vitamin D deficiency.
Promising results regarding the treatment of patients with septic shock with sodium ascorbate – a pH-balanced formulation of vitamin C.
We got the very exciting news that Angelique de Man has received new funding from Stichting de Merel for her research into the detection of vitamin C in the blood, and the role of vitamin C.
A new systematic review by Lee and colleagues has just been published, regarding the benefits of intravenously administered vitamin C to patients.