Researchers and scientists are all working diligently to find ways to prevent, treat, and cure COVID-19. One of the hot topics floating around is about Vitamin D’s role in preventing COVID-19 and improving the clinical outcomes. Can Vitamin D really protect us against COVID-19?
As we discussed in our earlier email series, having enough circulating Vitamin D should reduce complications by preventing the “cytokine storm” that physicians are seeing in response to COVID-19 infection in addition to the role of Vitamin D in regulating the renin-angiotensin system, modulating neutrophil activity and by maintaining the integrity of the pulmonary epithelial barrier.
lining with these facts, a recent study has presented clinical evidence associated between Vitamin D deficiency and severity of COVID-19. Conducted by German researchers, the study was published in Nutrients at the end of 2020.
The study by Radujkovic et al. analyzed data from 185 COVID-19 patients to see if Vitamin D status at hospital admission had any association with COVID-19 disease severity and survival.
Results as shown in the graph above, those with a vitamin D level below 12 ng/ml had a 15-times higher risk of death and 6-times higher risk of severe disease like need for invasive mechanical ventilation.
The present study demonstrates an association between Vitamin D deficiency and severity of COVID-19. Vitamin D deficient patients had a higher hospitalization rate and higher risk of invasive mechanical ventilation, (intensive) oxygen therapy and death.
Results from observational studies such as the one above, as well as my previous circulation of the first published randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation and patients with COVID-19 which showed a 96% lower risk of ICU admission for those receiving vitamin D, add to the growing list of evidence of the importance of vitamin D and avoiding deficiency to offer a safeguard against COVID-19.
Therefore, optimal Vitamin D levels should be considered in all individuals seriously and with Ditamin BabyVit and AdulVit D3 supplementation become an easy way to help support your immune system both innate and adaptive responses because Ditamin is just pure FDA, GMP standard Vitamin D3 without any artificial additives it’s tasteless, colorless and odorless.
In addition, along with the entire types of Vitamin D supplements available in the market Ditamin AdulVit 50,000 IU, 5,000IU and 1,000IU are the smallest pills worldwide ever because patient’s compliance matters to United Pharma.
We hope that this study could help your physicians to improve the clinical outcome of their positive COVID-19 patients using Ditamin Vitamin D adjuvant treatment to reduce the need for invasive mechanical ventilation and risk of death.
