Ample evidence exists from human studies that vitamin D reduces the risk of selected bacterial and viral infections

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 235, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1395-1396

  Grant, William B ^a   Goldstein, Mark ^a   Mascitelli, Luca ^b  

^a Sunlight Nutrition and Health Research Center ^*  (United States)

^b Fountain Medical Court ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; COLECALCIFEROL; VITAMIN D;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE STORM; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA B; NOTE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANT WOMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VITAMIN D;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78650071496     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2010.010c01     Document Type: Note

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