Vitamin D supplementation among Bangladeshi children under-five years of age hospitalised for severe pneumonia: A randomised placebo controlled trial.
Fahmida ChowdhuryAbu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin ShahidMosharrat TabassumIrin ParvinProbir Kumar GhoshMohammad Iqbal HossainNur Haque AlamA S G FaruqueSayeeda HuqLubaba ShahrinNusrat HomairaZakiul HassanZubair AkhtarS Mah-E-MuneerGeorge J FuchsTahmeed AhmedMohammod Jobayer ChistiPublished in: PloS one (2021)
Age-specific mega dose of vitamin D followed by a maintenance dose shown to have no statistical difference between the two intervention groups, however there was a trend of reduction of time to recovery from pneumonia and overall duration of hospital stay in under-five children with a sufficient serum vitamin D level on hospital admission.