Avoidance of vitamin D deficiency to slow the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Vitamin D deficiency, which impedes good immune function, is common during winter and spring in regions of high latitude. There is good evidence that vitamin D deficiency contributes to the seasonal increase of virus infections of the respiratory tract, from the common cold to influenza, and now possibly also COVID-19. This communication explores key factors that make it more likely, particularly in combination, that individuals are vitamin D deficient. These factors include old age, obesity, dark skin tone and common genetic variants that impede vitamin D status. Precision nutrition is an approach that aims to consider known personal risk factors and health circumstances to provide more effective nutrition guidance in health and disease. In regard to avoiding vitamin D deficiency, people

SUBMITTER: Kohlmeier M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7295862 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature