Re:Vitamin D at least 30 ng/mL reduced risk for Covid-19 adv...
by aplummer on Saturday September 26, 2020 @01:35PM
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They measure obesity and find it 0.02 vs 0.01 for vitamin d, which seems a decent enough proxy for lifestyle for this kind of study so your underlying point is valid here. Actually i think the biggest missing control is race.
I went in skeptical even though intuitively being deficient in vitamin d makes sense, this isn’t convincing but I agree with with their conclusion that it’s worth a bigger study.
If someone reading is wondering whether to maintain a healthy level of vitamin D to help if you get covid, yes you should. Should have done that before this study ofc.
Re:Vitamin D at least 30 ng/mL reduced risk for Covid-19 adv...
by thyrsus on Sunday September 27, 2020 @02:13AM
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Race can be a proxy for the amount of melatonin, which influences vitamin D. It can also be related to many other things. How would you use race to interpret the data?
I went in skeptical even though intuitively being deficient in vitamin d makes sense, this isn’t convincing but I agree with with their conclusion that it’s worth a bigger study.
If someone reading is wondering whether to maintain a healthy level of vitamin D to help if you get covid, yes you should. Should have done that before this study ofc.