Vitamin D as Treatment for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2010-08-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This project aims to explore the relationship between Vitamin D deficiency and COPD
progression via a prospective randomized placebo-controlled study. For this purpose, study
was powered to 120 patients hospitalized with an exacerbation of COPD randomly assigned to a
monthly oral dose of Vitamin D versus placebo. Taking into account dropouts, 182 patients are
randomized during the course of the study