Harri Hemilä

Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 


  1. Research: the effect of vitamins C and E on infections
      1. List of publications on vitamins C and E
      2. Seven most important papers
      3. Thesis (2006) Do vitamins C and E affect respiratory infections?   
      4. Book chapter 2009
      5. Cochrane reviews:  vitamin C + the common cold, pneumonia, tetanus
      6. Additional files related to vitamin C, links to full text papers and documents:
    2. Education 
    3. Job
    4. Teaching (in Finnish)


Vitamin C was first produced in large amounts from Paprika



Location:  http://www.ltdk.helsinki.fi/users/hemila

  Updated:  August 27, 2009
 

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Research: the effect of vitamins C and E on infections


List of publications on vitamins C and E

Links to fulltext papers are included if available.
About 80 publications in Medline.

List of Hemilä's Finnish publications         See also papers at   Terveysportti

Seven most important papers


1. Vitamin E supplementation has an effect on mortality

2. Vitamin E supplementation decreases the risk of pneumonia by 50% in old males who exercise regularly

3. Vitamin C supplementation decreases the risk of the common cold by 50% in people under heavy acute physical stress (meta-analysis)

    3b Three later studies supported the above conclusion, see the Cochrane Review

4. Vitamin C supplementation may have an effect on plasma cholesterol level (meta-analysis)

5. Three controlled trials found that vitamin C supplementation decreases the incidence of pneumonia by 80% or more (meta-analysis)

    5b A more detailed analysis in the Cochrane Review

6. Thomas Chalmer's influential review (1975) on vitamin C and the common cold is inconsistent with original reports and there are calculation errors and has midled the public opinion on vitamin C for over three decades

    6b. Chapter in 2006 thesis discussing the same topic

7. The most influential controlled trial on vitamin C and the common cold by Thomas Karlowski and Thomas Chalmers et al. (1975) was analyzed erroneously and has misled the public opinion on vitamin C for over three decades

    7b. Chapter in 2006 thesis discussing the same topic





Thesis (2006) Do vitamins C and E affect respiratory infections?   

Selected sections of the Thesis as HTML documents with active and updated links to fulltext papers


Book version available at:     Amazon      Barnes&Noble   Foyles.co.uk    Borders.co.uk      Buchwelt.de  



Vitamins and Minerals, Book chapter 2009


In: Common Cold (eds Eccles & Weber), Birkhauser


Abstract and list of references with links to the cited papers



Cochrane reviews:  vitamin C + the common cold, pneumonia, tetanus


Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold version 2007
Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold version 2004 Freely available  
Fulltext references


Vitamin C for preventing and treating pneumonia version 2009 
Fulltext references


Vitamin C for preventing and treating tetanus version 2008
Fulltext references
Summary of animal studies on the effect of vitamin C on tetanus toxin and strychnine
 


Additional files related to vitamin C, links to full text papers and documents:


Papers by and about Linus Pauling  
  
Papers by and about Albert Szent-Gyorgyi  and Charles Glenn King    
 
Papers by Klenner, Cathcart, Stone  

Vitamin C papers in Finnish 

Links to papers describing the Chandra case

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Education 

MD 1999 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 
PhD (medicine) 2006 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland  
PhD (biochemistry) 1993  University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Job

Yliopistonlehtori; Senior lecturer

Docent; associate professor, biochemistry 1996

Teaching (in Finnish)


Ammattina lääkäri (L1)

Suomalainen terveydenhuoltojärjestelmä (L1)

Informaatioteknologia (L1)

Lääkäri ja lainsäädäntö (L4)




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