{"id":950,"date":"2007-05-02T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/vitamin-d-as-treatment-of-tuberculosis\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T11:09:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T10:09:26","slug":"vitamin-d-as-a-treatment-of-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/05\/vitamin-d-as-a-treatment-of-tuberculosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D as a treatment of tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a lot of hype around the usefulness of vitamin D in the treatment of tuberculosis (<a href=\"http:\/\/ajrccm.atsjournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/200701-007OCv1\">scienceblog:doi:10.1164\/rccm.200701-007OC<\/a> ).  The authors mention even their previous review (<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jsbmb.2006.12.052\">scienceblog:doi:10.1016\/j.jsbmb.2006.12.052:<\/a>) summarizing 13 studies between 1947 and 1998.<!--more--><br \/>\nI am quite sure that they missed much earlier research as vitamin D has been discovered as early as 1922 (<a href=\"http:\/\/jn.nutrition.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/134\/6\/1299\">scienceblog:http:jn.nutrition.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/134\/6\/1299<\/a> ). At least in 1929 there was a congress report at the &#8220;Deutsche Gesellschaft f&uuml;r Lichtforschung&#8221; published in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg&#8217;s Archives of Pharmacology, Volume 147, Numbers 1-3 \/ Dezember, p 60-61, 1929 <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/BF01946034\">scienceblog:doi:10.1007\/BF01946034<\/a> of 58 patients treated with 1-3 x 16 mg \/ daily vigantol with an excellent outcome. Mortality within 1 year was reduced to 50%, with nearly full recovery of working capacity  in all other trial participants.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a lot of hype around the usefulness of vitamin D in the treatment of tuberculosis (scienceblog:doi:10.1164\/rccm.200701-007OC ). The authors mention even their previous review (scienceblog:doi:10.1016\/j.jsbmb.2006.12.052:) summarizing 13 studies between 1947 and 1998. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,1031,1034,1033,1032,578],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunshine-vitamin","tag-congress_report","tag-discovery","tag-full_recovery","tag-therapeutic_usefulness","tag-treatment_of_tuberculosis","tag-vitamin_d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}