Three studies into vitamin D suggest a potential link, but scientists say it's important to remember correlation does not equal causation.
respectively, which showed the prevalence of low vitamin D levels was much higher in those with severe COVID-19 illness, compared to those who had sufficient levels.
"In Indonesia they were able to look at 780 cases and they also had information that gave them explicitly the vitamin D status, as well as the outcomes, including mortality, for the COVID-19 infection." "These are both provocative but not even close to definitive," Daniel Culver, Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program in the Department of Pulmonary, Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic told."Both of these studies are 'causal inference' studies—in other words association studies that attempt to look at whether a certain exposure is correlated with a certain outcome.
Unlike the two studies from southeast Asia, this research only estimated levels of vitamin D in the patients it examined rather than looking at actual measurements, meaning that future studies will be needed to confirm its findings, Sue Shapses, a professor in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, who was not involved in the ACER paper, toldThe authors also note that their study contains several other limitations, such as differences between cases, testing...
Given the spread of the virus and prevalence of vitamin D deficiency around the world, the potential for increased COVID-19 risk from low vitamin D levels raises a significant questions about whether we should be providing supplements to people in order to protect them from the disease, Troen said.
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