Vitamin D supplements protect against cold and flu, study finds
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By Sally Robertson, BScFebruary 16, 2017 at 7:54 AM
The use of Vitamin D supplements can help to protect against acute respiratory infections, according to a new study.
If everybody took the supplements, more than three million people could ward off colds and flu every year, say the authors of the world-wide, collaborative study.
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Vitamin D supplementation has been a hot topic in the medical community recently, with experts divided over whether it is beneficial or not. A number of observational studies have found an association between low vitamin D levels and increased susceptibility to acute respiratory infections and several clinical trials have found a protective effect of vitamin D supplementation. However, other trials have shown no protective effect and meta-analyses of all the trials have shown contradictory results.
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