Research · Systematic review
Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold
What it found
Does not prevent colds in the general population; regular intake shortens duration ~8%.
- Design
- Systematic review
- Year
- 2013
- Population
- general population
- Intervention
- vitamin C
- Outcome
- cold incidence and duration
- Journal
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Citation last checked 2026-06-21.