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For what it's worth, I've been curating research on over-the-counter interventions for Covid-19 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19stack https://www.reddit.c

For what it's worth, I've been curating research on over-the-counter interventions for Covid-19 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19stack https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19stack The research on vitamin D has been discussed extensively there over the last couple months. This article (and the linked citations) misses a bunch of the most important theorized mechanisms of action, most notably that vitamin D plays a role in regulating blood clotting and having adequate levels may prevent the kind of sudden deaths from stoke we've been seeing in people who seemed to have gotten over the disease with otherwise mild symptoms.

kpfleger 6y ago
Author of the review here. Happy to have addition suggestions for papers to include in the review. I looked at the Reddit group you linked and saw only citations of Alipio et al and Grant et al (from several posts), both of which I already cite. The review says of the Grant et al paper that it "broadly reviews evidence for D to help with infectious diseases, pneumonia, and inflammatory cytokines that damage the lungs and discusses some of the aspects of COVID-19 infection that are known to relate to things known to be also relevant to vitamin D." So not quite sure what it is that you are suggesting be covered that is not. The review is not meant to be a thorough description of the biology at the intersection of vitamin D & COVID-19. The point of bring up the refs I have in section 8 is to point out that there are good causal mechanistic biological arguments for D's usefulness against C19, to help justify a call for additional data gathering. Your reddit group looks fine and all, but it isn't the same as a single document that concisely collects all the best evidence for the potential of vitamin D in a well organized way.

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For what it's worth, I've been curating research on over-the-counter interventions for Covid-19 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19stack https://www.reddit.c

by Alex3917 6y ago

kpfleger 6y ago
Author of the review here. Happy to have addition suggestions for papers to include in the review. I looked at the Reddit group you linked and saw only citations of Alipio et al and Grant et al (from several posts), both of which I already cite. The review says of the Grant et al paper that it "broadly reviews evidence for D to help with infectious diseases, pneumonia, and inflammatory cytokines that damage the lungs and discusses some of the aspects of COVID-19 infection that are known to relate to things known to be also relevant to vitamin D." So not quite sure what it is that you are suggesting be covered that is not. The review is not meant to be a thorough description of the biology at the intersection of vitamin D & COVID-19. The point of bring up the refs I have in section 8 is to point out that there are good causal mechanistic biological arguments for D's usefulness against C19, to help justify a call for additional data gathering. Your reddit group looks fine and all, but it isn't the same as a single document that concisely collects all the best evidence for the potential of vitamin D in a well organized way.