COPD trial to use 80,000 IU of vitamin D weekly – RCT 2021

This Study Include Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) Patients . Patients Were Vitamin D Deficient Age Range 40 to 80 Years, Smokers Patients Were Advised to Take Either Placebo or Vitamin D3 . Antioxidant Enzymes Were Assessed at Baseline and at 26th Weeks. (BSMMU)

80,000 IU weekly for 13 weeks, then 40,000 IU weekly for 13 weeks

VitaminDWiki anticipates that this trial will be successful

• COPD quality of life improved by 400,000 IU Vitamin D loading dose – RCT July 2019

• COPD 2.8 times more likely to be severe if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Oct 2016

• COPD strongly associated with Vitamin D Binding Protein problems – meta-analysis Aug 2015

• COPD severity is associated with Vitamin D deficiency – meta-analyses 2015, 2019

• COPD reduced by 40 percent with monthly 100,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Jan 2015

  COPD fought by Vitamin D - many studies has the following

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AND the Overview includes the following sections

50,000 IU weekly - 6X more likely to improve breathing - 2014

50,000 IU helped COPD in many ways - Jan 2015

COPD has become the 3rd largest global cause of disability: ages 50-69