ReviewIranian journal of public health2018
Efficacy and Safety of Vitamin D Supplementation for Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Review in Iranian journal of public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Vitamin D supplementation for tuberculosis prevention: A meta-analysis.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Pooled it
- Preventive Vitamin D Supplementation and Risk for COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Vitamin D and Multiple Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Observational Studies, Randomized Controlled Trials, and Mendelian Randomization Studies.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation on the outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment in adults: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Chinese medical journal · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of Vitamin D supplementation on resolution of fever and cough in children with pulmonary tuberculosis: A randomized double-blind controlled trial in Indonesia.Journal of global health · 2022Trial
- Evolution of evidence on vitamin D supplementation in tuberculosis: A comprehensive umbrella review of nine systematic reviews.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2026Article
- Hypovitaminosis D among newly diagnosed pulmonary TB patients and their household contacts in Uganda.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Vitamin D as an Adjunctive Treatment to Standard Drugs in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients: An Evidence-Based Case Report.Advances in preventive medicine · 2019Review
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundVitamin D might be promising to serve as an adjunctive therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). However, the results remained controversial. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of vitamin D in patients with pulmonary TB.
methodsMedline, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, EMBASE, Springer, and Science Direct were searched electronically from inception to Oct 2016. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled clinical trials (CCTs) assessing the effect of vitamin D plus anti-tuberculosis treatment (ATT) versus placebo plus ATT on the treatment of pulmonary TB were included. Two investigators independently searched articles, extracted data, and assessed the quality of included studies. Data were analyzed using RevMan 5.3 software.
resultsFive studies were included in this meta-analysis. Overall, compared with placebo intervention, vitamin D supplementation was found to have no significant effect on sputum smear negative conversion rates (RR=0.99; 95% CI=0.91 to 1.07;
conclusionVitamin D supplementation showed no influence on the improvement of sputum smear-negative conversion rates and BMI, as well as the decrease in ESR.
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