Vitamin D and Reduced Incidence of Acute Respiratory Infection

• The effectiveness of interventions to reduce the transmission of acute respiratory infections in care homes: a systematic review.

  • 2024-08-13
  • Systematic Review · n = 21
  • Journal of public health (Oxford, England) 46(4)
  • • Merlin L Willcox
    • Deepthi Lavu
    • Usaid Yousaf
    • Sam Dalton
    • Nia Roberts
    • Annette Plüddemann

  • PubMed: 39136085
  • DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdae178

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Incidence of Acute Respiratory Infection

  • High evidence
  • Elderly

  High dose vitamin D supplementation reduced incidence of ARIs (incidence rate ratio 0.60; 95%CI 0.38-0.94, one trial).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  high dose