Does vitamin D protect against Covid after all? Israeli study finds patients who are deficient are up to 14 TIMES more likely to fall severely ill
Bar Ilan University researchers studied 253 Covid patients from 2020 to 2021
They found those with vitamin D deficiencies made up 87% of severe cases
Researchers back-dated patient records by two years to zero out conditions
By Joe Davies Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 11:04 EST, 4 February 2022 | Updated: 12:27 EST, 4 February 2022
Vitamin D may help fight off coronavirus after all, a study suggests.
The jury has been out on the 'sunshine vitamin' since early in the pandemic, with conflicting findings muddying the waters.
Papers that did find a link were deemed not rigorous enough and not definitive. But a new study — this time in Israel — claims to have the most conclusive evidence yet.
Previous research has been criticised for only looking at vitamin D levels when the Covid patient was already in hospital.
Being ill is known to make levels of the vitamin drop, which may have skewed findings, according to critics.
To overcome this limitation, in their latest study, researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center looked at patient records up to two years before they were diagnosed with Covid.
They found people who were consistently deficient in the vitamin were up to 14 times more likely to suffer severe disease, even after adjusting for age and other underlying health woes.
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