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Scientists discover natural therapies treat COPD

In a separate study, researchers from Belgium revealed knowledge showing that vitamin D deficiency is common among patients with COPD and supplements of the vitamin may significantly help patients with the breath-robbing illness.

"Although this treatment has been used in China for thousands of years, no scientific studies had been performed on this conventional Chinese natural therapy," they added. "This study results helped us standardize the treatment protocol and avoid adverse events in future clinical practice."

"Our study shows that high doses of vitamin D supplementation on top of a standard rehabilitation program improve the result in terms of exercise capacity and respiratory muscle strength," Miek Hornikx, physiotherapist and doctoral studentin the department of pneumology at the Katholieke University in Leuven, Belgium, said in a press statement.

"Low levels of vitamin D in the blood have been related with muscle weakness, a major target for respiratory rehabilitation and increased risk of falls," they added. "Since vitamin D is often depleted in patients with COPD, they desired to see if vitamin D supplementation would have a beneficial effect on rehabilitation among these patients, perhaps by increasing muscle strength."

The research team studied 50 COPD patients with a history of exacerbations who had been referred for rehabilitation and randomly assigned them to get either a every month dose of vitamin D or placebo. Patients receiving vitamin D got 100,000 IUs (international units) in a every month dose (far above U.S. recommended every day allowance of 600 every day IUS of vitamin D).

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