Vitamin D and Reduced Tuberculosis Severity Score

• Efficacy and safety of vitamin D supplementation in treating pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2026-04-22
  • Meta-Analysis
  • BMC infectious diseases 26(1)
  • • Chunyan Fan
    • Xiaoli Ye
    • Chengpeng Wang
    • Yuqing Wu
    • Bin Tong
    • Lin Han

  • PubMed: 42021229
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13321-7

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Tuberculosis Severity Score

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  reduced mean TB severity scores (SMD: -1.20; 95% CI: -2.18 to -0.21; P=0.02; low GRADE certainty; I²=96%, P<0.0001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes