COPD trial to use 80,000 IU of vitamin D weekly – RCT 2021

This Study Include Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) Patients . Patients Were Vitamin D Deficient Age Range 40 to 80 Years, Smokers Patients Were Advised to Take Either Placebo or Vitamin D3 . Antioxidant Enzymes Were Assessed at Baseline and at 26th Weeks. (BSMMU)

80,000 IU weekly for 13 weeks, then 40,000 IU weekly for 13 weeks

Vitamin D Life anticipates that this trial will be successful

• COPD quality of life improved by 400,000 IU Vitamin D loading dose – RCT July 2019

• COPD 2.8 times more likely to be severe if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Oct 2016

• COPD strongly associated with Vitamin D Binding Protein problems – meta-analysis Aug 2015

• COPD severity is associated with Vitamin D deficiency – meta-analyses 2015, 2019

• COPD reduced by 40 percent with monthly 100,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Jan 2015

  COPD fought by Vitamin D - many studies has the following

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AND the Overview includes the following sections

50,000 IU weekly - 6X more likely to improve breathing - 2014

50,000 IU helped COPD in many ways - Jan 2015

COPD has become the 3rd largest global cause of disability: ages 50-69