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[[{{{journal}}}/Vitamin D as an adjunct for acute community-acquired pneumonia among infants and children: systematic review and meta-analysis|Vitamin D as an adjunct for acute community-acquired pneumonia among infants and children: systematic review and meta-analysis]]
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Pneumonia is the most important cause of death in children under five years old. Vitamin D is cheap and known to improve the immune system response against respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis. This meta-analysis found three randomized placebo-controlled trials of vitamin D as an additional treatment for pneumonia in 997 infants and children. Taken together, these trials showed no effect of vitamin D cure rates, mortality, time to clinical recovery or duration of hospital stay for pneumonia in children. The quality of evidence is however still low.
doi: 10.15347/wjm/2017.005