Vitamin D status related to immune response to HIV-1

Date: June 15, 2015

Source: Penn State

Summary:

Vitamin D plays an important part in the human immune response and deficiency can leave individuals less able to fight infections like HIV-1. Now an international team of researchers has found that high-dose vitamin D supplementation can reverse the deficiency and also improve immune response.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150615162900.htm