Millions all over the world are looking for new ways to protect from the Covid-19.
Researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center note an association between vitamin D deficiency and an increased risk of contracting COVID-19.
The study’s authors analyzed 489 patients who had been treated by U Chicago Medicine over the past year before also being tested for COVID-19. Over the course of their treatment, all of those patients had their vitamin D levels measured at some point.
Understanding whether treating Vitamin D deficiency changes COVID-19 risk could be of great importance locally, nationally and globally,” Dr. Meltzer adds. “Vitamin D is inexpensive, generally very safe to take, and can be widely scaled.”
Ultimately, the study’s authors say that more Covid research and experiments are necessary to understand the full relationship between vitamin D and the corona virus.
