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Article: Vitamin C plays important role in normal airway function, research shows.
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- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- April 15, 2004
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2004 APR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland, California, have found that Vitamin C plays an important role in normal airway function, may prevent symptoms associated with airway diseases such as cystic fibrosis and asthma, and may even help alleviate the dry cough suffered by smokers.
The findings of the Children's researchers are a first step toward evaluation of vitamin C as a drug candidate and therapeutic agent in the complementary treatment of asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive lung disease.
In the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...