{"id":5649,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-d-supplementation-prevents-viral-upper-respiratory-tract-infections\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:20","slug":"vitamin-d-supplementation-prevents-viral-upper-respiratory-tract-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-d-supplementation-prevents-viral-upper-respiratory-tract-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D supplementation prevents viral upper respiratory tract infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study, conducted by a Canadian University, investigated whether vitamin D supplementation could prevent viral upper respiratory tract infections. 600 participants were divided into four groups. 1st group: vitamin D and gargling; 2nd group: placebo and gargling; 3rd group: vitamin D only, and 4th group: placebo only. The results showed that vitamin D supplementation significantly reduced upper respiratory tract infections. It was suggested that supplementation additionally might reduce the risk of clinical infections. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Goodall et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/24885201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study, conducted by a Canadian University, investigated whether vitamin D supplementation could prevent viral upper respiratory tract infections. 600 participants were divided into four groups. 1st group: vitamin D and gargling; 2nd group: placebo and gargling; 3rd group: vitamin D only, and 4th group: placebo only. The results showed that vitamin D supplementation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6368,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}