Vitamin D and Reduced Incidence of Tuberculosis

• Effect of Micronutrients on HIV-Related Clinical Outcomes Among Adults Living With HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

  • 2024-11-22
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 4,000
  • Nutrition reviews 83(7)
  • • Elile Monisola Okoka
    • Moshood Abiodun Kuyebi
    • Oluwafemi Temitayo Oyadiran
    • Temitayo Rebecca Okusanya
    • Emmanuella Onaku
    • Moshood Olanrewaju Omotayo
    • Ajibola Ibraheem Abioye

  • PubMed: 39576658
  • DOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuae171

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Incidence of Tuberculosis

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Evidence from single RCTs suggests a beneficial effect of vitamin D on the incidence of sputum-smear-positive tuberculosis (hazard ratio = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.31, 0.92; 4000 participants; low-certainty evidence)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes