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Pneumonia and low vitamin D - many studies

Pneumonia Risk, intensity, and mortality are all associated with low vitamin D


Pneumonia in VitaminDWiki

Risk Factor estimates for Pneumonia

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Children and Pneumonia

79+ Pneumonia and Vitamin D publications (PubMed)

  • Effect of Adjunctive Single High-Dose Vitamin D 3 on Outcome of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Hospitalised Adults: The VIDCAPS Randomised Controlled Trial - Sept 2018  Download the RCT PDF from VitaminDWiki
    • 17X more likely for Pneumonia to go away in those starting with <10 ng and getting a single dose of 200,000 IU of Vitamin D
    • Note: Not statistically significant
  • The Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies - Sept 2019
  • Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation in the Prevention of Recurrent Pneumonia in Under-Five Children - Dec 2019,DOI: 10.1007/s12098-019-03025-z
  • Vitamin D Supplementation for Treatment and Prevention of Pneumonia in Under-five Children: A Randomized Double-blind Placebo Controlled Trial - Aug 2016  Download the RCT PDF from VitaminDWiki
    • 100,000 IU temporaily raised vitamin D levels by an average of 30 ng, not much benefit (needed much larger dose)

Pneumonia in the web

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia
    "Pneumonia affects approximately 450 million people globally (7% of the population) and results in about 4 million deaths per year"
    "Pneumonia often shortens suffering among those already close to death and has thus been called "the old man's friend"."
    "Pneumonia is due to infections caused primarily by bacteria or viruses and less commonly by fungi and parasites."
    "Conditions and risk factors that predispose to pneumonia include
    • smoking, immunodeficiency, alcoholism, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, chronic kidney disease, and liver disease."
    • Note by VitaminDWiki - every one of those risk factors is also associated with low vitamin D levels
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-acquired_pneumonia much less likely to be due to a superbug
  • Sunshine, rainfall, humidity and child pneumonia in the tropics: time-series analyses June 2013
    "Lack of sunshine was most strongly associated with pneumonia in both lagged regression. . . and case-crossover analysis"
    "This association is well known in temperate settings but has not been noted previously in the tropics"
  • Search Google for heliotherapy pneumonia 31,000 items
    sun therapy for pneumonia, TB, etc. was common before the invention of antibiotics
  • Be in the Know About Pneumonia Mercola June 2016?
    "These rates resulted in pneumonia being addressed as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S., tied with influenza."
    ". . .it’s one of the two main causes of hospitalization, apart from childbirth."

Pneumonia elderly death 12X more likely when vitamin D less than 12 ng – 2011

Vitamin D, Innate Immunity and Outcomes in Community Acquired Pneumonia
1. Leong Leow1, 2. Talia Simpson3, 3. Ray Cursons3, 4. Noel Karalus1, 5. Robert J Hancox1,2,*
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.01924.x

Background and objective Vitamin D regulates the production of the antimicrobial peptides cathelicidin and beta defensin-2, which play an important role in the innate immune response to infection. We hypothesised that vitamin D deficiency would be associated with lower levels of these peptides and worse outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia.

Methods Associations between mortality and serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, cathelicidin, and beta defensin-2 were investigated in a prospective cohort of 112 patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia during winter.

Results Severe 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency (<30nmol/L) was common in this population (15%) and was associated with a higher 30-day mortality compared to patients with sufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin D(>50nmol/L) (OR 12.7, 95%CI 2.2-73.3, p = 0.004).

These associations were not explained by differences in age, co-morbidities, or the severity of the acute illness.
Neither cathelicidin nor beta defensin-2 levels predicted mortality, although there was a trend towards increased mortality with lower cathelicidin (p = 0.09).
Neither cathelicidin nor beta defensin-2 levels correlated with 25-hydroxyvitamin D.

Conclusions 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency is associated with increased mortality in patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia during winter.
Contrary to our hypothesis, 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were not associated with levels of cathelicidin or beta defensin-2.

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Vitamin D and bacteria pneumonia causality (ignores the Vitamin D Receptor) - March 2021

Vitamin D and bacterial pneumonias: the question of causality
Thorax. 2021 Mar 2;thoraxjnl-2020-216375. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216375
Richard James Allen 1
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Type of Pneumonia: viral, bacterial, fungal

Scientific Animations
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25% of Pneumonia is viral (Rhenovirus, Influenza, etc,) - CDC


High-dose Vitamin D reduces recurrent pneumonia by half - meta-analysis Oct 2020

Efficacy of High-Dose Vitamin D Supplementation as an Adjuvant Treatment on Pneumonia: Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Studies
Nutrition Considerations for Specific Medical Conditions https://doi.org/10.1002/ncp.10585
Chao Yang MD, PhD, Yifei Lu MD, Min Wan MPH, Dengfeng Xu MD, PhD, Xian Yang MD, PhD, Ligang Yang MD, PhD

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to summarize randomized controlled trial (RCT) evidence and evaluate the efficacy and safety of vitamin D (VD) supplementation as an adjunct to antibiotics for the treatment of pneumonia. Data sources published from the inception dates up to January 2020 were searched. RCTs of VD supplementation of any duration, age, and dosing regimen type were eligible for inclusion if data on pneumonia were collected. Thirteen studies (4786 randomized participants) fulfilled eligibility criteria.
VD supplementation significantly increased levels of serum 25(OH)D (mean difference = 15.97; 95% CI, 7.49–24.44; P = .002) and reduced incidence of repeat episodes of pneumonia (risk ratio [RR] = 0.68; 95% CI, 0.50–0.93; P = .02).
Subgroup analysis revealed VD supplementation had more reducing effects on repeat episodes of pneumonia among participants in trials in which the population were children (RR = 0.66; 95% CI, 0.48–0.90), duration <3 months (RR = 0.55; 95% CI, 0.33–0.91), or
dose of VD <300,000 IU (RR = 0.51; 95% CI, 0.29–0.89).
Although our results suggested that VD supplementation had a positive effect on recovery rate of pneumonia (RR = 1.28; 95% CI, 0.94–1.74; I2 = 13%), there was no statistical difference (P = .12).
High-dose VD intervention may have an effect on reducing the incidence rate of repeat episodes of pneumonia by enhancing immune efficacy, although more population studies are needed to support that VD supplementation has therapeutic effects on pneumonia itself.
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36+ VitaminDWiki pages have PNEUMONIA in the title

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COVID senior pneumonia deaths: 50% if low Vitamin D and unvaccinated vs 16% if Vitamin D or vaccinated – June 2023 28 Feb, 2024
Preemies with pneumonia infection have especially low vitamin D levels (12 ng) – May 2023 08 Oct, 2023
Influenza, pneumonia, or ear infections almost 2X more likely if low vitamin D - Jan 2023 24 Aug, 2023
Pneumonia and low vitamin D - many studies 09 Nov, 2022
Fewer children died of pneumonia after 100,000 IU Vitamin D injection – RCT March 2021 23 Oct, 2022
Recurrence of child pneumonia delayed by 100000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Oct 2010 01 Apr, 2021
Acute pneumonia in children 3X less likely if greater than 30 ng of vitamin D – Jan 2021 20 Mar, 2021
COVID-19 plus pneumonia in ICU with low vitamin D equaled Death - Dec 2020 04 Jan, 2021
Vitamin D supplementation could prevent and treat influenza, CORONAVIRUS, and pneumonia infections - March 2020 30 Mar, 2020
Spinal Cord Injured persons were 7.6 X more likely to get pneumonia if low vitamin D – Jan 2020 18 Jan, 2020
Pneumonia 6X more likely if very low vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2019 18 Oct, 2019
Hospital-acquired pneumonia treated by vitamin D if person was deficient – RCT Sept 2018 16 Sep, 2018
Pneumonia in Egyptian Children 3.6 X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – Aug 2018 15 Aug, 2018
Childhood pneumonia not treated by 100,000 IU of vitamin D – Cochrane (need more, inhaled) – July 2018 19 Jul, 2018
Pneumonia is increasing (now 1 in 6 child deaths), more vitamin D studies needed – June 2018 09 Jun, 2018
RSV (bronchitis and viral pneumonia) in infants associated with low vitamin D and antibiotics – Aug 2015 10 Jan, 2018
Ventilator-associated pneumonia death rate cut in half by Vitamin D injection (300,000 IU) – RCT July 2017 06 Dec, 2017
Pneumonia patients 3 X more likely to die if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2017 07 Oct, 2017
Children with pneumonia in Ethiopia were 22X more likely to have rickets – 1997 25 Jun, 2017
Viral Pneumonia in children 52 X more-likely if very low vitamin D (trend) – June 2017 25 Jun, 2017
Any supplementation with vitamin D reduced chance of pneumonia by 50 percent – Oct 2013 25 Jun, 2017
Less Pneumonia in those having more activated vitamin D (kidneys working)– April 2014 25 Jun, 2017
Pneumonia acquired in hospital – 3X more likely to die if low vitamin D – June 2015 08 Jan, 2017
Pneumonia is less frequent in people with more than 35 ng of vitamin D – Nov 2013 26 Nov, 2016
Severe Pneumonia (CAP) results in death 2 times more often if very low vitamin D – July 2016 26 Nov, 2016
Pneumonia in children not stopped for 6 months by single dose of vitamin D (3 months max) – RCT Nov 2016 26 Nov, 2016
Season of birth associated with pneumonia (10 pcnt) and multiple sclerosis (30 pcnt) – May 2013 05 Nov, 2016
Pneumonia in seniors was 2.5X more likely if low vitamin D – June 2014 26 Jul, 2016
Animal study: vitamin D as an adjunct therapy for the treatment of Pneumocystis pneumonia - Jan 2015 05 Jan, 2016
Quarterly vitamin D3 is too infrequent – it increases the occurrence of pneumonia – June 2012 04 Jan, 2016
Much higher hospital costs (ICU and pneumonia) if low vitamin D – Dec 2015 03 Dec, 2015
Pneumonia 2.6X more likely if low vitamin D – April 2013 07 May, 2015
ICU patients with pneumonia stay 7 days longer if low vitamin D - Dec 2011 16 Nov, 2013
A little extra vitamin D did not reduce chance of pneumonia – July 2013 15 Oct, 2013
Rickets in 80 percent of infants with severe pneumonia – Sept 2010 23 Jun, 2013
2000 IU of vitamin D for just 5 days did not treat severe pneumonia – RCT June 2012 19 Jan, 2013
Pseudomonas pneumonia- April 2010 14 Apr, 2010

Pneumonia problems in China might by treated by Vitamin A - Dr. Campbell Videos

Vitamin A and mystery pneumonia Dec 2023
Pneumonia and Vitamin A in China Dec 2023
Vitamin A deficiency is a problem in China, but not the US

See also: Vitamin D and Vitamin A - toxicity and interaction


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