Post-Transplant Vitamin D Deficiency in Lung Transplant Recipients: Impact on Outcomes and Prognosis.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc, published as an observational study.

In this study, the researchers performed a retrospective observational study on the impact of vitamin D deficiency on clinical outcomes and prognosis in 125 lung transplant recipients (LTRs) from October 2014 to March 2020 at a university hospital in Seoul, South Korea.

LTRs in the vitamin D-deficient group exhibited a higher incidence of post-transplant pneumonia and overall mortality than those with normal vitamin D levels during the follow-up period.

Who Took Part

The study group was 51 patients.

PubMed indexes the participants as adults, middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

What Was Measured

In this study, the researchers performed a retrospective observational study on the impact of vitamin D deficiency on clinical outcomes and prognosis in 125 lung transplant recipients (LTRs) from October 2014 to March 2020 at a university hospital in Seoul, South Korea.

LTRs in the vitamin D-deficient group exhibited a higher incidence of post-transplant pneumonia and overall mortality than those with normal vitamin D levels during the follow-up period.

PubMed files the paper under topics including Lung Transplantation, Vitamin D Deficiency, Prognosis, Vitamin D, Republic of Korea, Postoperative Complications and Incidence.

Author keywords: pneumonia and survival.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 51 patients.

The publication is from 2024 (Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), a journal based in Switzerland.

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