Vitamin D supplementation in the critically ill: Should meta-analysis be used?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sherbrooke University Hospital, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address: Pascal.laferriere-langlois@usherbrooke.ca.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sherbrooke University Hospital, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
³ Department of Critical Care, Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Comment

Pascal L Langlois et al. Clin Nutr. 2017 Dec.

. 2017 Dec;36(6):1731-1732.

doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2017.08.008. Epub 2017 Aug 13.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sherbrooke University Hospital, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address: Pascal.laferriere-langlois@usherbrooke.ca.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sherbrooke University Hospital, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
³ Department of Critical Care, Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay.

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Vitamin D supplementation in the critically ill: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Langlois PL, Szwec C, D'Aragon F, Heyland DK, Manzanares W. Langlois PL, et al. Clin Nutr. 2018 Aug;37(4):1238-1246. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2017.05.006. Epub 2017 May 11. Clin Nutr. 2018. PMID: 28549527
When not to use meta-analysis: Analysing the meta-analyses on vitamin D in critical care.
Amrein K, Martucci G, McNally JD. Amrein K, et al. Clin Nutr. 2017 Dec;36(6):1729-1730. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2017.08.009. Epub 2017 Aug 12. Clin Nutr. 2017. PMID: 28844336 No abstract available.