Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there were theories that vitamin D deficiency was associated with the disease.
Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Safed, Israel and the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Israel identified an association between vitamin D deficiency and severity and mortality of COVID-19.
The study evaluated vitamin D levels before infection in 1,176 patients admitted between April 2020 and February 2021 to the Galilee Medical Center (GMC).
They found that patients with vitamin D deficiency, meaning lower than 20 ng/mL, were 14 times more likely to have severe or critical COVID-19 than people whose vitamin D levels were greater than 40 ng/mL.
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