Speaking about a paper accepted by Oxford University Press’s ‘OJM: The International Journal of Medicine’, which presents important findings that could reassure and cheer the Indian population, it’s lead author says “Vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk of mortality, need for intensive care and ventilation in Covid-19 patients irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity and comorbidity conditions”. Dr. Komal Shah, an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health in Gandhinagar, says the paper is “a review of reviews”, which is a scientific method to summarise the findings of earlier individual studies. In this instance, 10 studies have been summarised from countries as diverse and far apart as India, China, Indonesia, Greece, Spain, Brazil, Germany and the United Kingdom.
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