Association between population vitamin D status and SARS-CoV-2 related serious-critical illness and deaths: An ecological integrative approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vitamin D population status may have possible unappreciated consequences to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Α significant association between vitamin D sufficiency and reduction in clinical severity and inpatient mortality from COVID-19 disease has recently been shown, while a recent study has claimed lower COVID-19 cases in European countries with a better vitamin D status. Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D [25(OH)D] was identified as an independent risk factor for COVID-19 infection and hospitalization, and administration of 0.532 mg (21280 IU) of calcifediol or 25(OH)D, followed by 0.266 mg on days 3 and 7 and then weekly until discharge or intensive care unit admission significantly reduced the need for intensive care unit treatment.

Aim

To eluci

SUBMITTER: Papadimitriou DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8152454 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature