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The day before, a study on the possible association of vitamin D deficiency with high mortality from coronavirus in Spain and Italy was published in Research Square. The World Health Organization considers this assumption to be unproven.
There is currently no proven association between vitamin D deficiency and high coronavirus mortality in individual countries. About this to the Russian agency RBC declared in the press service of the World Health Organization.
A preprint of a study by scientists from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation and the University of East Anglia “The Role of Vitamin D in the Prevention of Infections and Mortality from Coronavirus Disease COVID-19” was published on April 8 in Research Square magazine, not peer reviewed.
The authors compared the average vitamin D levels in citizens of 20 European countries affected by the coronavirus with COVID-19 mortality statistics. The researchers found that a particularly low level of vitamin A is observed among residents of Spain and Italy, and more frequently among older people, who are the group of people most vulnerable to coronavirus infection, RBC notes.
An outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus infection started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
As of May 3, 3.47 million people were infected with coronaviruses worldwide, 245,000 died, approximately 1.11 million recovered, reports Johns Hopkins University.
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