What do we really know about micronutrient supplementation and risk for upper respiratory infection?
| العنوان: | What do we really know about micronutrient supplementation and risk for upper respiratory infection? |
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| المؤلفون: | Sydne J Newberry |
| المصدر: | BMJ Global Health BMJ Global Health, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | BMJ Publishing Group, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine (General), medicine.medical_specialty, media_common.quotation_subject, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Context (language use), Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216, 03 medical and health sciences, R5-920, 0302 clinical medicine, Pandemic, Influenza, Human, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Micronutrients, health education and promotion, Intensive care medicine, Respiratory Tract Infections, media_common, business.industry, SARS-CoV-2, 030503 health policy & services, Health Policy, Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Respiratory infection, COVID-19, Micronutrient, Surprise, Editorial, Dietary Supplements, 0305 other medical science, business, Healthcare system |
| الوصف: | Dietary nutrition researchers have been trying to understand how nutrition and nutrients influence immune function for a long time—over 60 years, judging by the dates of some of the earliest published research papers on nutrition and immune function. It should come as no surprise then that this interest has reached a fever pitch as governments, healthcare systems and especially public health systems worldwide face what is likely the biggest health challenge in most of our lifetimes and probably over a century—preventing, treating and averting long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection. Within a month or two of acknowledgements that COVID-19 had reached pandemic proportions, it seems, the mainstream media was already reporting conflicting untested evidence about the possibility that vitamin D or C supplements might play a role in preventing or mitigating infection, and some reputable clinicians were asserting that even in the absence of evidence, perhaps it would be prudent just to take some extra vitamin D.1 It is in this context that Abioye and colleagues2 decided to systematically review the literature on the role of dietary vitamin and mineral supplements in preventing or shortening the course of upper respiratory infections (URIs). The bottom line is that much of the research, which dates back decades, was poorly designed and reported, and the evidence for benefits is weak, confirming the assertions of several other relatively recent reviews on nutrients and immune function.3 4 Nevertheless, the evidence, as weak as it is, could easily encourage false hopes, potentially improving nothing … |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2059-7908 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a7ac2902d533ead673969f7b43a414df http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7818817 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....a7ac2902d533ead673969f7b43a414df |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20597908 |
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