Patients with 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels below 20 pg/ml required longer mechanical ventilation (p = 0.045) and had a worse acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II score (p = 0.048). Conclusion The vast majority of COVID-19 ARDS patients had vitamin D deficiency. 25-...
Vitamin D deficiency as a predictor of poor prognosis in patients with acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19 Hypovitaminosis D is a highly spread condition correlated with increased risk of respiratory tract infections. Nowadays, the world is in the grip of the Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID...
"Several studies have brought to light that patients withvitamin D deficiencyhave a worse outcome inCOVID-19," saidpulmonologistand internist Dr. Len Horovitz, of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "This is not surprising sincevitamin Dseems to have a beneficial effect on the immune system...
Perspective: vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 severity–plausibly linked by latitude, ethnicity, impacts on cytokines, ACE2 and thrombosis J. Intern. Med., 289 (2021), pp. 97-115, 10.1111/joim.13149 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar [88] M. Mohan, J.J. Cherian, et al. Exploring links ...
VITAMIN D deficiencyHOSPITAL mortalityCOVID-19COVID-19 pandemicDISEASE risk factorsOLD ageOsteoporosis International -doi:10.1007/s00198-020-05677-6Melanie HarsAline MendesChristine SerratriceFrancois HerrmannAndrea TrombettiSpringer LondonOsteoporosis International...
Clin Mol Allergy (2020) 18:23 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12948-020-00139-0 Clinical and Molecular Allergy REVIEW Vitamin D and Covid‑19: an update on evidence and potential therapeutic implications Giuseppe Murdaca1* , Giovanni Pioggia2 and Simone Negrini1 Open Access ...
Objective To examine the relationship between serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) level and COVID-19 infection, its severity, and its clinical case characteristics. Methods This case-control study compared serum 25(OH)D levels and rates of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) between 80 healthy ...
Asystematic review and meta-analysisfound that, while vitamin D deficiency was not associated with the risk of COVID-19 infection, people who had COVID-19 had lower vitamin D levels than those who did not have COVID-19. Onesystematic reviewfound that COVID-19 patients with a poor prognosis...
due to many confounding factors,” said lead investigator Professor Andrea Giustina. “The highly-controlled nature of our study helps us better understand the role of vitamin D deficiency in long COVID, and establish that there is likely a link between vitamin D deficiency and long COVID.” ...
The medical/political management of COVID-19 has demonstrated that the pathogen, markets before mandates, is an equal in the ability to cause disease and to damage the economy. If damage to the economy is going to come, what better time than now (quarantines causing economic slowdowns) to ...