Vitamin D deficiency on admission to hospital was associated with a 3.7-fold increase in the odds of dying from COVID-19, according to an observational study looking back at data from the first wave of the pandemic. Nearly 60% of patients with COVID-19 were vitamin D deficient upon ...
Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with COVID-19 Incidence and Disease Severity in Chinese PeopleXia LuoQing LiaoYing ShenHuijun LiLiming ChengThe Journal of Nutrition
"Up to 75 percent of COVID-19 patients were vitamin D deficient on admission. That's a lot," said Dieter de Smet, director of the AZ Delta laboratory. "We also saw that the more severe the COVID-19 pneumonia was, the more pronounced vitamin D deficiency was." ...
suffer from milk allergies, or stick to a vegan diet. People with dark skin may also be at risk for developing vitamin D deficiency. This is because the pigment melanin reduces their skin’s ability to make vitamin D after sun exposure. Other risk factors for vitamin D deficiency include: ...
"It is hard to say which dose is most beneficial for COVID-19," Backman said. "However, it is clear that vitamin D deficiency is harmful, and it can be easily addressed with appropriate supplementation. This might be another key to helping protect vulnerable populations, such as African-Ame...
During the pandemic, there was a significant increase invitamin Ddeficiency in pediatric patients with major depressive disorder, in new findings that suggest spending more time indoors may have fueled this uptick. "We suspect that this may be due to the COVID lockdowns and kids schooling from...
Researchers from three Korean hospitals have found that vitamin D deficiency has a major impact on causing and aggravating Covid-19 and how it does so.Vitamin D is a nutrient that greatly affects the activities of the innate and acquired immune systems,
But how does it work when it comes to COVID? In a German trial of nearly 10,000 people, researchers found deaths from respiratory illness were three times higher for those with a Vitamin D deficiency. While at Northwestern University, researchers analyzed data from ten countries and found pati...
Vitamin D deficiencyAcute respiratory failureMortality riskHigh prevalence of hypovitaminosis D was found in COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure, treated in a RICU. Patients with severe vitamin D deficiency had a significantly higher mortality risk. Severe vitamin D deficiency may be a ...
Objective: The present study examined the relationship between PCR test positivity and clinical outcomes of vitamin D levels measured within the six months before the PCR test in COVID-19 positive patients. Materials and methods: In this retrospective cohort study,COVID-19(227) and non-COVID-19...