Association of Vitamin D Levels, Race/Ethnicity, and Clinical Characteristics With COVID-19 Test Results.
Vitamin D deficiency and obesity increases risk of testing positive for COVID-19.
Vitamin D and Lung Outcomes in Elderly COVID-19 Patients
In this retrospective cross-sectional study of 65 elderly patients serum, Vitamin D deficiency was associated with more severe lung involvement, longer disease duration, and risk of death in elderly COVID-19 patients.
Low Vitamin D Status at Admission as a Risk Factor for Poor Survival in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: An Italian Retrospective Study
Study participants were 137 patients who were admitted to a hospital in Rome Italy between March 1 and April 30, 2020 with COVID-19 who had serum 25(OH)D levels
Serum 25(OH)D Level on Hospital Admission Associated With COVID-19 Stage and Mortality
This study suggests that there is a potential association between vitamin D deficiency on hospital admission and mortality of COVID-19 pneumonia, independent of other conditions that might be...
Association of Vitamin D Status with COVID-19 Infection and Mortality in the Asia Pacific region: A Cross-Sectional Study
This population study found a relationship between vitamin D levels and the number of COVID-19 cases, but not deaths in Asia Pacific countries. While the study demonstrated a correlation...
COVID-19 mortality in the UK Biobank cohort: revisiting and evaluating risk factors
This study of the COVID-19 epidemic and its effect on UK Biobank participants identified vitamin D, age, male sex, and Black ethnicity as key explanatory factors for COVID-19 death. However, once an adjustment for multiple risk...
Metabolic Healthy Obesity, Vitamin D Status, and Risk of COVID-19
This study assessed the possible roles of metabolic/obesity phenotypes and vitamin D status (as documented in the UK Biobank prospective cohort survey) in increasing COVID-19 severity in a group with a mean age of 67.7 years...
Vitamin D in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) patients with non-invasive ventilation support
In this study involving 118 patients at the San Paolo Hospital in Miliam Italy, a significant proportion of COVID-19 patients had vitamin D deficiency and patients requiring...
Vitamin D and disease severity in coronavirus disease 19
25-OH-vitamin D 25(OH)D deficiency (less than 50 nmol/L) was associated with both a more severe systemic inflammatory response and respiratory failure in a group of hospitalized, older (mean age, 69.4 years) COVID-19 positive patients in Italy.
Vitamin D levels and intensive care unit outcomes of a cohort of critically ill COVID-19 patients
This observational study suggests that a high proportion (70.3%) of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had vitamin-D deficiency that the general UK population, however, there were no measurable differences in overall clinical outcomes between...