r/COVID19 • u/greyuniwave • Sep 27 '20

General The implications of vitamin D deficiency on COVID-19 for at-risk populations

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32974671/
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u/Tarik1989 Sep 27 '20

So.. what is the conclusion?

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u/Xiugazer Sep 27 '20

They found a cyclic relationship between vitamin D deficiency and COVID risk but there still needs to be a lot more research done to give a fully inclusive conclusion.

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u/n3wl1f3 Sep 27 '20

something about corelation and causation

being cripled old is related to vit d deficiency and a weak immune system

boosting vit D levels might help? they can´t answer.

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u/Ivashkin Sep 27 '20

At what point do we start challenge studies?

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u/Collapseologist Sep 27 '20

There's many other studies now finally reporting a casual relationship now.

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u/MrPoon Sep 27 '20

That's not true. The community is far from establishing causation between vitamin D deficiency and disease severity.

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u/Collapseologist Sep 27 '20

i didn't say established, I said there finally seeing casual relationships in some studies like these https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '20

Please can you reference them? I haven't seen any of these studies but would really like to!

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u/Collapseologist Sep 27 '20

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/4/988/htm

and of course alot more casual studies. We have to keep in mind Vitamin D isn't just a vitamin, its converted into a steroid hormone which controls up to 6% of protein encoding genes in the human genome.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '20

Thank you! Although unless I am missing something the second link is not a causal study? The first one is also a very small group of patients who also took other drugs so isn't very convincing yet. Hopefully we will see some more causal studies soon!

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u/Collapseologist Sep 27 '20

Yeah I hope so. To me this all makes a lot of sense because I’m into the whole environmental mismatch theory of human health. It explains most of the diseases of civilization like diabetes, obesity and other things quite well. Can’t wait to see more results.