Vitamin D deficiency relation to sepsis, paediatric risk of mortality III score, need for ventilation support, length of hospital stay, and duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill children: A meta-analysis.

Vitamin D deficiency in children might have an independent relationship with higher sepsis, paediatric risk of mortality III score, length of hospital stay, and duration of mechanical ventilation. The relation was relative with a higher risk in need for ventilation support with vitamin D deficiency children. This relationship encouraged us to recommend testing vitamin D levels in all critically ill children and providing them with supplemental vitamin D as prophylaxis.