Vitamin D and Reduced Acute Exacerbation Rate

• Improvement of Lung Function by Micronutrient Supplementation in Patients with COPD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2024-04-01
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 43
  • Nutrients 16(7)
  • • Mingxin Li
    • Liangjie Zhao
    • Chenchen Hu
    • Yue Li
    • Yang Yang
    • Xiaoqi Zhang
    • Quanguo Li
    • Aiguo Ma
    • Jing Cai

  • PubMed: 38613061
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu16071028

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Acute Exacerbation Rate

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Clinical

  vitamin D supplementation could significantly improve ... decrease the odds of acute exacerbations

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

• A study to assess the relationship between vitamin D3 levels and the risk of acute exacerbation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

  • 2024-03-01
  • RCT · n = 100
  • Monaldi archives for chest disease = Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace 95(1)
  • • Ankit Lakra
    • Balbir Singh
    • Ashok Kumar Janmeja
    • Vanita Sharma
    • Arjun Kumar

  • PubMed: 38436381
  • DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2024.2885

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Acute Exacerbation Rate

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  Vitamin D supplementation was positively correlated with a decrease in the rate of acute exacerbations in the intervention group in terms of ... number of acute exacerbations (1.7 in the intervention group and -1.05 in the non-interventional group, p<0.001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes