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However, whether vitamin D supplementation would improve their prognosis remains uncertain.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from MIMIC-IV database, a publicly available database containing clinical information on patients admitted to the ICU at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) from 2008 to 2019. Adult patients with sepsis were included in the analysis. The exposure factor was vitamin D supplementation during the ICU stay. The primary outcome was 28-day all-cause mortality. Both propensity score matching (PSM) and stepwise regression analyses were employed to adjust for potential confounders.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 20230 eligible patients were enrolled in the entire unmatched cohort, and 8710 patients were included in the matched cohort. In PSM analysis, the 28-day all-cause mortality rate was 14.04% (250\/1780) in the vitamin D group and 22.31% (1546\/6930) in the no vitamin D group. Vitamin D supplementation was associated with decreased 28-day all-cause mortality (HR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.49-0.64; p &amp;lt; 0.001). Subgroup analyses showed consistent benefits regardless of the baseline vitamin D status (deficiency: HR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.33-1.50; p = 0.36; insufficiency: HR, 0.10; 95% CI, 0.03-0.34; p &amp;lt; 0.001; sufficiency: HR, 0.33; 95% CI, 0.12-0.88; p = 0.03). Additionally, vitamin D supplementation was associated with decreased ICU mortality (OR, 0.37; 95% CI, 0.29-0.48; p &amp;lt; 0.001) and reduced in-hospital mortality (OR, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.48-0.68; p &amp;lt; 0.001). Sensitivity analysis using the unmatched cohort confirmed these findings (HR, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.43-0.76; p &amp;lt; 0.001).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Vitamin D supplementation may reduce mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis. 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