When two of their patients with inflammatory bowel disease presented with some striking signs and symptoms, clinicians at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City were forced to consider a condition associated with the Napoleonic Wars, potato famines and long sea voyages: scurvy.
“Many clinicians think of scurvy as a disease of the past, but the prevalence of vitamin C deficiency in the general population is 7%, and IBD patients may be at higher risk of this deficiency due to dietary