Exploiting the antioxidant potential of a common vitamin: could vitamin C prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis?
Although vitamin C has antioxidant properties, when given orally, even at a high dose, the serum levels required for it to exhibit antioxidant activity cannot be attained. This approach holds no potential for the use of vitamin C in the prevention of osteoporosis, although other routes of administration could overcome this.
Both eradication of hepatobiliary lesions and keeping Oddi sphincter intact should be emphasized in the management of hepatolithiasis. Neither COSTS nor EST is an effective method or can achieve the goal of reducing cholangitis for hepatolithiasis.