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So can we please run the study to see if this is correlation or causation? I’m getting quite tired of seeing this vitamin D story with no follow up. It can’t b
by tinus_hn 6y ago
So can we please run the study to see if this is correlation or causation? I’m getting quite tired of seeing this vitamin D story with no follow up.
It can’t be that hard right? It’s stuff that you can buy over the counter and that you’d have to use crazy amounts of to overdose.
- takeda 6y agoI remember there was a story on HN where there was study related to vitamin D where patients that received vitamin D had higher chance of recovery.
- graeme 6y agoThis one. Randomized control study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602...
- kuya_noel 6y agoearlier studies relate vitamin D deficiency to risk for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndromes in general. the "brandykinin hypothsis" links poor COVID-19 outcomes to vitamin D deficiency as vitamin D is a regulator of the Renin Angiotensin System. https://elifesciences.org/articles/59177#s1 https://elifesciences.org/articles/59177#s1
- kylebenzle 6y agoIts not a hard analysis to do but then they wouldn't be able to publish as easily. The scientific process is not about progress, its about publish or perish. D is perfect for this type of non-sense science as it is correlated with so many things and each one can get dozens of papers out of it.
- epmaybe 6y agoI wrote this whole long comment talking about all the issues in trying to design a good trial to figure this out, but here's one trial I think will give us some more info, it seems better designed than the other ones I've seen (sample size remains a problem): https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04525820 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04525820