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Also, an actual peer reviewed paper came out recently that showed giving vitamin d to covid patients upon admitting them did not decrease death rates. I'll look
by UShouldBWorking 6y ago
Also, an actual peer reviewed paper came out recently that showed giving vitamin d to covid patients upon admitting them did not decrease death rates. I'll look for the link but it was front page here like two weeks ago.
- coding123 6y agoPlease find the link because about 2 / 3 months ago there was a story that was exactly the opposite finding. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366006 I've been monitoring HN for Vitamin D info very closely.
- zamfi 6y agoI think the parent poster is referring to https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232397v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232397v... (Can't find the HN discussion link at the moment, unfortunately -- it didn't point to that particular link!) Worth noting that this RCT was for bolus supplementation of Vitamin D3 at some point in their hospital stay, and excluded patients already supplementing with D3. This study stands in stark contrast to the earlier pilot out of Spain: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076020302764?via%3Dihub#bib0100 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007602... -- though as noted, this was not D3 but rather Calcifediol (a D3 metabolite), and a much smaller study.
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- Arech 6y agoThere's nothing contradictory in it. It may take several months to restore normal Vitamin D level from the state of deficiency, so it's very long process. On average much longer than typical Covid duration. Proper Vitamin D level should be reached _before_ contact with the virus. Then the data would be valuable and helpful. Theirs data doesn't show much, imho.