New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Those with vitamin D deficiency are vulnerable to coronavirus infection, researchers have said in their study published in journal JAMA Network Open.
"Vitamin D is important to the function of the immune system and vitamin D supplements have previously been shown to lower the risk of viral respiratory tract infections," said David Meltzer, MD, PhD, Chief of Hospital Medicine at UChicago Medicine and lead author of the study. "Our statistical analysis suggests this may be true for the Covid-19 infection."
The research team looked at 489 UChicago Medicine patients whose vitamin D level was measured within a year before being tested for Covid-19. Patients who had vitamin D deficiency (less than 20ng/ml) that was not tre...