High-altitude living and vitamin D: factors associated with viral risk?

MS Calvo - The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2020 - ajcn.nutrition.org
In this issue of the Journal, Beer, Herrán, and Villamor present their analyses of the 2015
nationally representative survey data measuring serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin …

Vitamin D and wellbeing beyond infections: Covid-19 and future pandemics

SJ Stohs, OI Aruoma - Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Female Volunteers”), Preuss et al. have demonstrated negative correlations between blood
levels of vitamin D and HbA1C, body weight, body mass index, and systolic blood pressure …

Commentary: myths and facts on vitamin D amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

M Chakhtoura, N Napoli… - Metabolism-Clinical …, 2020 - metabolismjournal.com
COVID-SARS-2 pandemic has struck and spread at light speed, reaching 6 continents within
3 months, transforming our societies globally [1]. In b6 months, numbers rose exponentially …

[HTML][HTML] Avoidance of vitamin D deficiency to slow the COVID-19 pandemic

M Kohlmeier - BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vitamin D deficiency, which impedes good immune function, is common during winter and
spring in regions of high latitude. There is good evidence that vitamin D deficiency …

Vitamin D and COVID-19: lessons from spaceflight analogs

SR Zwart, SM Smith - The Journal of nutrition, 2020 - jn.nutrition.org
The biomedical community is racing to better understand the mechanism of action behind
the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that is …

Analysis of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels involves taking into account several confounding factors

LL Zhai, CX Chen, CH Zhan, GW You, Q Chen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
With great interest, we read the impressive article entitled “Vitamin D status and obesity in
children from Chile” by Pérez-Bravo et al.[1], which analyzed the profiles of vitamin D levels …

Vitamin D supplementation could prevent and treat influenza, coronavirus, and pneumonia infections

WB Grant, H Lahore, SL McDonnell, CA Baggerly… - 2020 - preprints.org
Low vitamin D status in winter permits viral epidemics. During winter, people who do not
take vitamin D supplements are likely to have low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25 (OH) D] …

Living in low-latitude regions in the United States does not prevent poor vitamin D status

S Park, MA Johnson - Nutrition reviews, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Vitamin D deficiency may occur throughout the life cycle, and is described as an
unrecognized epidemic. The risk of deficiency may be increased by darker skin color …

Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy: an ongoing epidemic

BW Hollis, CL Wagner - The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2006 - ajcn.nutrition.org
In this issue of the Journal, van der Meer et al (1) report a high prevalence of vitamin D
deficiency during pregnancy in non-Western women in the Netherlands. These investigators …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and correlates of vitamin D deficiency in a tropical setting: results from a nationally representative survey

RJ Beer, OF Herrán, E Villamor - The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) may be high in countries with
abundant sun exposure year-round, but nationally representative data are lacking. Objective …