“Strikingly, 100% of ICU patients less than 75 years old had vitamin D deficiency”
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Warning: Small n.
Still interesting. Can’t wait for follow up.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20075838v1
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@jon-nyc Do you mean 2000?
On days I’m home, I’m drinking a Barocca. It’s an Australian hangover tonic with 1000 C, 1000 D, some Zinc, and B3. This stuff inspired Emergen-C.
On days that I am out and about, the doc wants me taking 5000(!) of C&D. That’s a lot of frigging C if you know what I mean, so sometimes I only take 2500. I don’t think he realizes that I am out and about 3 times a week.
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@jon-nyc Do you mean 2000?
On days I’m home, I’m drinking a Barocca. It’s an Australian hangover tonic with 1000 C, 1000 D, some Zinc, and B3. This stuff inspired Emergen-C.
On days that I am out and about, the doc wants me taking 5000(!) of C&D. That’s a lot of frigging C if you know what I mean, so sometimes I only take 2500. I don’t think he realizes that I am out and about 3 times a week.
@LuFins-Dad
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Could it just be a coincidence due to the season?
Northern climate, winter, staying indoors due to cold, continuing to stay indoors when not feeling well. It wouldn't be unusual for folks to be low on vitamin D in those circumstances. Talk to folks in Oregon. They have lots of problems every year due to seasonal low vitamin D.
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And another study on Vitamin D and may definitively prove that COVID-19 is indeed racist.
https://www.live5news.com/2020/05/08/sc-researchers-studying-effects-vitamin-d-coronavirus-symptoms/
"The latest numbers from SCDHEC show African American cases of COVID-19 make up about 44% of total cases, even though African Americans only make up about 27% of the state’s population. Research shows melanin decreases the amount of sunlight that can get in the body, and therefore affects the amount of vitamin D made inside the bodies of people who have darker skin.
“Vitamin D is probably the classic thing to look at for disparities,” Hollis added."
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Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Vitamin D deficiency increases a person's risk for catching COVID-19 by 77% compared to those with sufficient levels of the nutrient, a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found.
As many as one in four of the nearly 500 participants in the study were found to have less-than-optimal levels of vitamin D, the data showed.
Among those found to be lacking the key nutrient, 22% contracted COVID-19, the data showed.
Of the 60% of study subjects with adequate vitamin D levels, just 12% were infected, according to the researchers.
Results A total of 489 patients (mean [SD] age, 49.2 [18.4] years; 366 [75%] women; and 331 [68%] race other than White) had a vitamin D level measured in the year before COVID-19 testing. Vitamin D status before COVID-19 testing was categorized as likely deficient for 124 participants (25%), likely sufficient for 287 (59%), and uncertain for 78 (16%). Overall, 71 participants (15%) tested positive for COVID-19. In multivariate analysis, testing positive for COVID-19 was associated with increasing age up to age 50 years (relative risk, 1.06; 95% CI, 1.01-1.09; P = .02); non-White race (relative risk, 2.54; 95% CI, 1.26-5.12; P = .009), and likely deficient vitamin D status (relative risk, 1.77; 95% CI, 1.12-2.81; P = .02) compared with likely sufficient vitamin D status. Predicted COVID-19 rates in the deficient group were 21.6% (95% CI, 14.0%-29.2%) vs 12.2%(95% CI, 8.9%-15.4%) in the sufficient group.
Conclusions and Relevance In this single-center, retrospective cohort study, likely deficient vitamin D status was associated with increased COVID-19 risk, a finding that suggests that randomized trials may be needed to determine whether vitamin D affects COVID-19 risk.
