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Respiratory infections reduced by 63 percent with 4000 IU vitamin D daily - RCT Dec 2012

Highlights of Report in Swedish translated by Google

  • Peter Bergman and his colleagues are fortunate to have 140 patients in daily treatment for one year with either vitamin D (4000 IU) or a placebo.
  • The study was double-blind: neither the patients - all of which were susceptible to infections - nor caregivers knew who belonged to which group before the trial was over.
  • The results show that vitamin D reduced patient discomfort.
  • The probability of requiring treatment with antibiotics during the study period was 63 % lower in the vitamin D group compared with the placebo group, and the incidence of fungal infections, including respiratory, decreased.

Chart from 2015 publication
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Note: if takes ~100 days for the vitamin D levels to plateau (thus, no benefit is expected until then)
Respiratory tract infection eliminated in 36 percent of people

Types of Respiratory Infections

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Vitamin D did particularly well with

  • Moraxella catharralis
  • Staphylococcus aureus
  • Pseudomona aeruginosa
  • Fungal infection

Adverse effects: fewer with vitamin D than with placebo

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Suspect that Vitamin D caused the reduction in:

  • Gastrointestinal
  • Cardiovascular
  • Infections

The RTI aspects

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 Download the English 2012 PDF from VitaminDWiki


 Download the English 2015 PDF from VitaminDWiki


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