The effects of Vitamin D on acute viral respiratory infections: a rapid review
Ryan Bradley bradley at nunm.edu 1, Janet Schloss* 3,4, Danielle Brown' Deisy Celis2/ John Finnell' Rita Hedol Vladyslav Honcharov2/ Traci Pantuso' Hilda Pena2, Romy Lauche3' Amie Steel3 1Helfg Ott Research Institute,
Clinical significance:
Despite several positive systematic reviews and meta-analyses, the available experimental evidence related to the effects of vitamin D on acute respiratory tract infection (ARTI) is plagued with heterogeneity and mixed quality, and therefore is insufficient to recommend vitamin D supplementation to the general population as a protective agent against ARTI. However, based on the evidence identified in this rapid review (including a high margin of clinical safety), combined with strong mechanistic rationale, the following recommendations can be made for those at risk of ARTI:
- 1. vitamin D status should be tested for those at risk of ARTI;
- 2. patients identified with deficiency or insufficiency should be supplemented with vitamin D until their status is normalized; and
- 3. daily dosing of vitamin D3 is preferred to achieve serum concentrations > 30 nmol/L in a timely manner.
Clinical trials support vitamin D doses of 800 IU/day up to 10,000 lU/day with 1,000 - 2,000 lU/day being a common dosing strategy in clinical trials, and potentially more effective then lower daily or bolus dosing strategies.
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Huge range of amount of Vitamin D given: as low as 40 IU
- Sorry, unable to extract text from this PDF without lots of errors
- Perhaps the watermark was too intense
- PDF is extremely conservative: goal of >13 ng
- Most health studies conclude that people need > 30ng,
- Some studies conclude that the goal should be > 50 ng
- They incorrectly assume that the common dosing strategy is a good dosing strategy
- This study, like many previous studies, found that a single large (bolus) dose when not followed up with maintenance dosing, does not help.
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