Vitamin D does not protect from COVID-19, study reveals

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2 June 2021, 18:36(5 years ago)

At the beginning of the pandemic, the survey suggested that vitamins D prevent people from being touched by COVID-19 or killed by it. But researchers from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, say there was no difference in vitamin D levels among people who did and did not contract the virus. Moreover, among patients who [...]

Moreover, among patients who became ill, patients with levels of vitamin D were less likely to have a serious period of illness or to be hospitalized with the disease.

A February 2021 study by the University of Barcelona revealed that Vitamina D reduces deaths from coronary to 60 percent. A March 2021 study revealed that the sun's ʹvitamine reduces the risk of contracting COVID-19 to seven percent.

But some health experts say there is not enough evidence yet that obtaining nutrients that increases immunity can prevent or treat COVID-19.

“The majority of vitamin D studies are very difficult to interpret because they cannot adapt to known risk factors for COVIID-19 severe as older and chronically ill, which are also forecasters of low vitamin D”, said study co-author Guillaume Butler-Laporte at McGil University.

For a new study, published in “magazine PLOS Medicine”, the team considered genetic variants strongly linked to increased vitamin D levels.

Participants were 4,134 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19, and 1,84,876 without COVID-19, from 11 countries.

Researchers used a process known as the Mendelain dedomization, which sees the difference in specific genes ʹ in this case, linked to high levels of vitamin D ʹ and examines its effect on a disease ʹ in this case, the Coronavirus.

The team wanted to see if there was a genetic predisposition for higher levels of vitamin D was linked to less serious results in people who contracted the virus.

Researchers found no evidence linking high levels of vitamin D and a lower risk of contracting COVID-19.