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Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by crawfordcomeaux on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:29PM (#24065212)
Does this material affect your advice?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28768407/

Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by devaboone on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:22PM (#24065759)
No, it doesn't. I haven't had a chance to really critically review the studies that are cited in that article, so I can't give an in-depth answer as to why that article is wrong. But I know that my recommendations are based on patients I have treated. And I have treated thousands of patients with parathyroid, calcium, and Vitamin D problems. That is all that I have done for the last 6 years, in fact. I've never had a patient require 8000 units of Vit D daily to get to a normal level - never. Yet this article would have me believe that 98% of people require over 8000 units to get Vit D in the normal range?! That is absurd. Anyone who has prescribed Vitamin D and watched levels knows that this isn't true. Many things published in medical literature are not valid, and not reproducible.
Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by partyboat1586 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:52AM (#24069224)
This study was based in Finland where they get very few hours of sun for a large part of the year.
Re:Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf] by CamperBob2 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:18PM (#24067312)
I just spent a few minutes surfing her blog, and she actually has a really good answer to questions along the lines of "What do you think of study X?": https://www.devaboone.com/post/evidence-and-intuition-in-the...

No affiliation, not a doctor, etc., just thought this particular essay was well stated.