Over 80% of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Have Vitamin D Deficiency, Study Finds
Over 80 percent of 200 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain have vitamin D deficiency, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
The researchers found 80 percent of 216 COVID-19 patients at the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla had vitamin D deficiency, and men had lower vitamin D levels than women. COVID-19 patients with lower vitamin D levels also had raised serum levels of inflammatory markers such as ferritin and D-dimer.
Reference “Vitamin D Status in Hospitalized Patients With SARS-Cov-2 Infection” 27 October 2020, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
The difference between vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 is that animals mostly produce vitamin D3 and plants produce vitamin D2.
Vitamin D (D2) comes from plant sources, such as wild mushrooms, as well as fortified foods, such as milk or cereal products.
Vitamin D3 mainly comes from animal sources such as fish oil, fatty fish, liver, and egg yolks. When your skin is exposed to sunlight, it produces vitamin D3
