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| Insufficient vitamin D increases risk of severe COVID-19, says new study | ||
| 2020-07-28 | ||
[And people say America gets its news from The Daily Mail!]
Low levels of vitamin D may put people at risk for developing COVID-19, according to a new study by Leumit Health Care Services and Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine. "The main finding of our study was the significant association of low plasma vitamin D level with the likelihood of COVID-19 infection among patients who were tested for COVID-19, even after adjustment for age, gender, socioeconomic status and chronic, mental and physical disorders," said Dr. Eugene Merzon, head of Leumit’s Department of Managed Care and its leading researcher. "Furthermore, low vitamin D level was associated with the risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19 infection, although this association wasn’t significant after adjustment for other confounders." Vitamin D has long been understood to impact immune response. According to Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, leader of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine research group, as much as 70% of the adult population worldwide is vitamin D insufficient or deficient. The Leumit and Bar-Ilan scientists analyzed if the risk of developing COVID-19 or becoming hospitalized because of it increases for people who have a low level of vitamin D. They studied 782 Israeli COVID-19-positive patients and 7,825 negative patients and determined that a low plasma vitamin D level appears to be an independent risk factor for COVID-19 infection and hospitalization. "We don’t know the mechanism," Frenkel-Morgenstern said. "What we do know is that people who develop severe COVID and were hospitalized — these people have significantly low vitamin D levels." The research has just been accepted to be published in The FEBS Journal on molecular, cellular and biochemical life sciences. This is the largest study of its kind to date, Frenkel-Morgenstern said. Similar studies have yielded the same results. A report published earlier this month in Clinical Neurology News stressed the importance of individuals obtaining the daily recommended dose of vitamin D in helping to ward off the novel coronavirus. Studies have suggested that taking vitamin D supplements and spending 30 minutes in sunlight in the summer could help. "Our finding is in agreement with the results of previous studies in the field," said Dr. Ilan Green, head of Leumit’s Research Institute. "Reduced risk of acute respiratory tract infection following vitamin D supplementation has been reported." The next step will be to evaluate this and other factors in association with mortality due to COVID-19, the press release said.
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| Posted by:Clem |
| #15 I was talking to a friend about this back in April, along with theorizing why New Orleans was getting hit particularly hard despite supposedly being a big seafood town. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-07-28 19:37 |
| #14 So the trick to getting through this is to make cheese sauce with D enriched milk, spike it with hot sauce, and sit back with a fine cigar, gin and tonic, chips and dip? Been doing that since college. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-07-28 18:54 |
| #13 #11 - Thanks. #12 - I disagree |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-28 17:59 |
| #12 IMPORTANT NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR HOT SAUCE Nope. Guess not. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-28 17:50 |
| #11 IMPORTANT NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR HOT SAUCE Nope. Guess not. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-28 17:50 |
| #10 There's lots of vitamin D in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, too. Dee-dee dee-dee-dee dee-dee ... |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-07-28 16:12 |
| #9 You mean no Vitamin D in the hot sauce drenching the pork rinds? |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-07-28 13:41 |
| #8 for people who don't metabolize the pills each a tuna melt sandwich (about 80 IU) three times a week |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-07-28 12:42 |
| #7 Mostly from their shitty ass diet. Dude, there is Vitamin D in pork rinds. It's the 2nd to last letter. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-07-28 10:31 |
| #6 Been known for a while. Also explains (besides the complete lack of social distancing) why the black community is hit so hard as they have a chronic problem with vitamin D deficiency. Mostly from their shitty ass diet. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-07-28 08:42 |
| #5 I guess one would have to care enough to dig. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-07-28 08:03 |
| #4 Don't have to dig very deep... Mescalero Apache Tribe on lockdown after COVID-19 spike reported on reservation |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-28 08:00 |
| #3 I wonder how Eskimos/First Nation people were affected by this. Their lives matter, too, ya know. Meanwhile, there were a few stories about American Indians getting hit, but I have not heard a peep about them in many, many weeks. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-07-28 06:59 |
| #2 So now you know why Melanin+ people have a problem with illness in general in places where it's not so sunny. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-28 05:02 |
| #1 Best way: get plenty of sunshine as stated. Next Best: Go to local drugstore, get a 10,000 IU liquid gel, and take that once a week, or 2000 IU gel and take it daily. IMPORTANT: take Vitamin C & E or eat foods that contain it, it helps with Vit D production and cycling, and take a Magnesium supplement or better yet eat magnesium rich foods: Magnedium rich foods: (per WebMD and Healthline)
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| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-07-28 02:29 |