Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19

Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by mcsb4 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:04PM (#23024285)

Anecdotelly, in Europe the countries worst hit by the virus have the most strict confinement: Italy, Spain and France.

Makes you wonder if there is a correlation to Vitamin D insufficiency due to lack of sun light.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by _ph_ on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:43PM (#23024741)

The confinement came after the virus hit them badly, not the other way around. So the confinement certainly didn't cause the virus outbreak.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by namdnay on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:13PM (#23024381)

You’ve got the causality the wrong way round

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by aardvark291 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:24PM (#23024533)

Yeah, and Italy, Spain, and France are some of the sunnier countries in Europe (compared to Germany, UK, Belgium, Scandinavia, etc). If anything I would expect vitamin D deficiency to be less common there.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by namdnay on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:58AM (#23030850)

I don't know about Spain, but in both Italy and France the regions most affected are the northern overcast places. The impact around the Med is much smaller, despite much much more retirees

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by tdeck on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:20AM (#23028297)

Don't forget Ecuador which is literally on the equator and experiencing a major outbreak.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by namdnay on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:59AM (#23030860)

It's the wet season in Ecuador

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by lawlessone on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:26PM (#23025798)

Diet seems to be the issue.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by Darmody on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:42PM (#23025919)

We had enough (more than enough, actually) sun this past winter here. The lock down happened after the virus hit us hard so your comment doesn't make much sense.

Anyway, we have VDI too even with our sunny weather. Not everybody likes sunbathing and the use of sunscreen with a high SPF is common.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by jonny_eh on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:45PM (#23024769)

Italy was hit hard before they locked down.

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Re:Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19 by lawlessone on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:24PM (#23025787)

The study mentions that Italy and Spain had high levels of deficiency before this hit.

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