Vitamin D may improve success rate of H pylori eradication, finds recent study

China: Vitamin D might protect people from Helicobacter pylori infection, a recent study published in the Helicobacter journal. Moreover, vitamin D can also improve the success rate of H pylori eradication and individuals with vitamin D deficiency had a lower success rate of H pylori eradication.

According to the meta-analysis, the levels of vitamin D levels in H pylori‐positive patients were found to be lower than H pylori-negative patients.

H. pylori, a gram-negative and spiral-shaped bacterium that dwells on the gastric epithelium, is known to be associated with gastrointestinal diseases such as gastric ulcer, stomach cancer, and gastritis. However, lately, it has been shown to be associated with non-gastrointestinal diseases including autoimmune thyroid diseases, pre-eclampsia, and prostatitis. H.pylori infection has become a public health issue which has attracted the attention of many countries