Vitamin D and Reduced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test Score

• 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 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test Score

  • 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 reduction in mean CAT score (4.17 in the intervention group and 1.43 in the non-interventional group, p<0.001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

• The effects of various nutritional supplements in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a network meta-analysis.

  • 2025-05-08
  • Systematic Review
  • BMC pulmonary medicine 25(1)
  • • Jia Zeng
    • Jing Cheng
    • Liangdong Zhu
    • Sufang Tang

  • PubMed: 40340688
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12890-025-03667-0

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test Score

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Whey proteins [MD = -0.70, 95% CrI (-0.99, -0.41)] reduced COPD Assessment Test (CAT) scores.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes