China News Service, Hangzhou, July 30 (Tong Xiaoyu Zhang Chi) Vitamin C is one of the essential micronutrients of the human body.
Vitamin C has good antioxidant properties and the potential to scavenge free radicals in the body
Most of them adopt traditional epidemiological methods, such as studying the relationship between diet or blood vitamin C levels and diseases in cohorts
To this end, West Lake University, West Lake Laboratory Human Nutrition and Epidemiology Laboratory (hereinafter referred to as "Zheng Jusheng Laboratory") took another approach
Previously, the research team conducted an analysis of more than 80,000 diabetic patients and more than 800,000 non-diabetic populations, and found that there is no strong evidence that oral vitamin C supplements can prevent type 2 diabetes
At the same time, Zheng Jusheng, a doctoral supervisor in the School of Life Sciences of West Lake University, collaborated with the Larsson team of Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and found that elevated blood vitamin C levels did not have a significant protective effect on the evaluated cardiovascular disease
After both studies have achieved results, Zheng Jusheng turned his attention to the relationship between vitamin C and cancer
Based on the genotype data of nearly 870,000 cohorts (including more than 248,000 cancer patients), the research team used the genetic tool variables that they discovered to predict the concentration of vitamin C, and found that the blood vitamin C level within the physiological concentration range is related to lung cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer.
But they also found an interesting phenomenon: Vitamin C intake obtained through dietary assessment can significantly reduce the incidence of lung cancer
"This is likely to be related to the non-vitamin C ingredients
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