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A comment on The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19.

Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by sradman on Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:27PM (#24368508)
> Serum 25OHD concentrations at baseline or during treatment are not available.

This is mind boggling. These 76 patients had extensive blood work done so why did the study design not include serum concentration testing before and after treatment?

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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by blithedale on Friday September 04, 2020 @08:16PM (#24380275)
Welcome to every Vitamin D study done ever. I follow some PHD/RD combination researchers on Twitter and they all get together each time one of these studies is done and bang their heads against a wall.
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