Tag Archives: pneumonia
11 October 2012
Low vitamin D status may increase risk of death from pneumonia
Researchers in New Zealand wanted to know if death rates from community-acquired pneumonia were related to vitamin D levels. Dr Cannell explains the study findings.
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Vitamin D level linked to pneumonia prognosis?
Researchers recently found that vitamin d deficiency may be associated with an increased risk of ICU admission and increased 30-day mortality among patients with pneumonia.
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11 May 2011
Infantile pneumonia
Pregnant women – like the rest of us – have a choice to make. Do we wait for the hundreds of randomized controlled trials that are currently being conducted to see if vitamin D helps, or do we act now, on what we know now?
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