The Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Recurrent Tonsillitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

What It Covers

This meta-analysis looks at Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

The role of vitamin D deficiency has been linked with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections, but its impact on the frequency of tonsillitis is not yet fully understood.

The objective of this study is to determine the association between vitamin D deficiency and recurrent tonsillitis based on current literature.

Why It Was Studied

A systematic review was performed following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline.

Data were collected from online medical databases (PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Collaboration Registry of Controlled Trials).

Who the Included Studies Covered

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were children and adults.

The data were collected in different phases: screening review using search words and controlled vocabularies followed by detailed review of screened articles based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, then a full review that included screening the references of selected articles.

How the Review Was Done

All studies addressing the association of vitamin D deficiency and recurrent tonsillitis prior to March 2019.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Bacterial Infections, Tonsillitis and Vitamin D Deficiency.

The authors tagged it with the keywords review and systematic review.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a meta-analysis of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 5 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2020 (Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery), a journal based in England.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.