Effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation on the outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment in adults: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

CONCLUSIONS: Vitamin D supplementation had no beneficial effect on anti-TB treatment, but it reduced the time to sputum culture conversion in participants with tt genotype of the TaqI vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism and improved the MDR TB sputum culture conversion rate. PMID: 31833904 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31833904?dopt=Abstract

Source: Chinese Medical Journal - December 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Zhang J, Chen C, Yang J Tags: Chin Med J (Engl) Source Type: research