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Vitamin D and coronavirus: Study show more than 80% of patients were deficient

Study: Vitamin D deficiency found in over 80% of COVID-19patientsHEALTH | Oct 28, 2020

By Kiersten Willis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Spain were overwhelmingly found to be deﬁcient invitamin D, according to a new study.

Researchers discovered 80% of 216 COVID-19 patients at the Hospital Universitario
Marqués de Valdecilla had a vitamin D deﬁciency. Men had lower levels of vitamin D
than women and COVID-19 patients with lower levels of vitamin D had increased
serum levels of inﬂammatory markers such as ferritin, a blood protein containing iron,and D-dimer, a protein fragment made when a blood clot dissolves in the body. The
latter is usually elevated in COVID-19 patients, according to a July study published in
the “Journal of Intensive Care.”

Explore Why you might want to take a vitamin D supplement right now“One approach is to identify and treat vitamin D deﬁciency, especially in high-risk
individuals such as the elderly, patients with comorbidities, and nursing homeresidents, who are the main target population for the COVID-19,” said the new study’s
co-author Dr. José L. Hernández of the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain.
“Vitamin D treatment should be recommended in COVID-19 patients with low levels

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Vitamin D and coronavirus: Study show more than 80% of patients were deficientof vitamin D circulating in the blood since this approach might have beneﬁcial eﬀects
in both the musculoskeletal and the immune system.”
The new ﬁndings were announced Tuesday by the Endocrine Society and published in
the medical organization’s “Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.”
The kidneys produce the hormone vitamin D. It controls blood calcium concentration
and aﬀects the immune system.
Vitamin D deﬁciency has been linked to a variety of health concerns, but researchcontinues to examine why it aﬀects other systems of the body. There are many studies
that point out how beneﬁcial vitamin D is on the immune system and how it oﬀers
protection against infections, in particular.
Mayo Clinic infectious disease specialist Dr. William F. Marshall wrote that not enoughdata exists to recommend the use of vitamin D to stop the infection from thecoronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, or to treat COVID-19, according to
the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization.

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Explore COVID-19’

Multiple studies have reviewed vitamin D’s impact on COVID-19, according to Mayo
Clinic.

A study of 489 people discovered those who were deﬁcient in the hormone weremore likely to test positive for the coronavirus than those who had normal vitamin Dlevels.
A small, randomized study saw that only one of 50 people hospitalized with COVID-19
who were administered a high dose of a type of vitamin D, calcifediol, required
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treatment in the intensive care unit. That’s compared to the group of 26 people who
were not given calcifediol in which 13 of them had to be treated in the intensive careunit.
While vitamin D deﬁciency is common in the U.S., Black and Hispanic people areespecially deﬁcient in the hormone, according to a 2014 study. The two groups havealso been disproportionately aﬀected by COVID-19.

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