Hidden vitamin c shortages found in nursing homes?
NCT ID NCT03807791
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This completed study looked at how common vitamin C deficiency is among 100 elderly people living in long-term care units. Researchers took a blood sample to measure vitamin C levels and recorded possible risk factors. The goal was to better understand why deficiencies happen in this group and how to prevent them.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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100 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jan 2019
- Finished
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Jun 2019
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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65 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Male or female over 65 years old * living in the Unit of Long Term Care without any limit time. * with a system of social insurance * Who gave its consent by his own , or with help of his representant or his tutor or curator. Exclusion Criteria: * rejection of the blood sample * patient feeding with articial nutritional feeding (stomach tube feeding) * person close to death, who is not able to feed himself and / or with life-threatening in short time. * Patient with personal history of vitamin C deficiency.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Unité de soins Longue Durée, Hôpital Pierre Garraud (Hospices Civils de Lyon)
Lyon, 69005, France
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