Vitamin D and Reduced Risk of Acute Respiratory Tract Infection

• Contemporary nutrition-based interventions to reduce risk of infection among elderly long-term care residents: A scoping review.

  • 2022-08-02
  • Systematic Review
  • PloS one 17(8)
  • • Athanasios Psihogios
    • Claudia Madampage
    • Brent E Faught

  • PubMed: 35917358
  • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272513

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Risk of Acute Respiratory Tract Infection

  • High evidence
  • Elderly

  Interventions that significantly reduced risk of infection included ... vitamin D (acute respiratory tract infection, skin and soft tissue infection)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes