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Vitamin-D and COVID-19: do deficient risk a poorer outcome

Fiona Mitchell Despite difficulties in comparing data across nations, mortality from COVID-19 is clearly higher in some countries than in others. Many factors could have a role in this disparity, including differences in proportion of elderly people in a population, general health...

Is a vitamin D fortification strategy needed?

J. L. Buttriss S. A. Lanham‐New Almost one in five adults aged 19–65 years in the UK has a low serum vitamin D concentration (below 25 nmol/l) according to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) (Roberts et al. 2018), which puts them at increased risk of the manifestations of...

Vitamin D and SARS-CoV-2 virus/COVID-19 disease

Lanham-New S, Webb A, Cashman K. et al. Background and aim The spread of novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the disease COVID-19 that is caused by SARS-CoV-2, continues apace. Saving lives and slowing the worldwide pandemic remain of utmost importance to everyone: the public, healthcare...