![[서울신문] Vitamin D is an essential nutrient in the corona era?… UK in clinical trials after controversy](https://img.seoul.co.kr/img/upload/2021/01/11/SSI_20210111140533.jpg "[서울신문] Vitamin D is an essential nutrient in the corona era?… UK in clinical trials after controversy")
In March, when the number of deaths from Corona 19 began to increase, a hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle) in the UK reported the result of prescribing a high content of vitamin D to corona19 patients. It was concluded that vitamin D could play a key role in strengthening immune and metabolic functions, thereby reducing the risk of respiratory diseases in the community. However, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) reported that Newcastle Hospital’s conclusions were controversial, and did not create guidelines for prescribing vitamin D to corona19 patients. It was regarded as a specific case that patients receiving vitamin D improved in this hospital.
Nevertheless, there is a debate among clinicians and endocrinologists around the world about whether a sufficient level of vitamin D administration can reduce the severity of Corona 19 and mortality, the British Guardian said on the 10th (local time). The Guardian also introduced the struggles of former British Minister of Brexit (withdrawal from the European Union), Davies David, who insisted on making guidelines for the administration of vitamin D to corona19 patients. In conclusion, after Davis’ struggle, clinical trials are underway in the UK to see if vitamin D helps prevent corona 19 infection.
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▲ Clinical results have shown that Corona 19 patients who have been prescribed high-dose vitamin D have a better survival rate, but the British pharmaceutical authorities have determined that there are insufficient research results to make vitamin D prescription an official guide. Sunlight is the best source of vitamin D, and foods containing vitamin D include egg yolk and salmon.
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#UK Public Health Bureau “Vitamin D daily consumption… Although it is not intended to treat COVID-19… ”
The amount of vitamin D prescribed by Newcastle Hospital was up to 750 times that recommended by the UK Public Health Administration. Medical staff at Newcastle Hospital said in July last year, 94 out of 134 corona19 patients who received vitamin D were discharged. 24 were hospitalized, of which 16 died. Thirteen of the dead were in their 90s, senile,’ published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, an academic journal of the American Endocrinology Society.
Unlike the British NHS, which had already known the results of this study in March of last year, but did not put much significance on it, expectations for the effect of vitamin D have increased both inside and outside the medical community. A volunteer group called’The Promising Immune Support Team’ provided a’well-being pack’ to strengthen immunity to NHS employees who were at the forefront of COVID-19 treatment, and packed vitamin D, vitamin C, and zinc in them. Some doctors have advised patients to take vitamin D informally. “There is accumulating evidence that vitamin D deficiency is a major risk factor for corona 19 severity,” said the British Indian Association of Doctors. People born with darker skin received less UV rays in the deeper layers where vitamin D is made, so they are relatively susceptible to vitamin D3 deficiency.”
Eventually, one month after the clinical trial at Newcastle Hospital, in April of last year, the UK’s Public Health Administration of England changed the vitamin D intake guidelines from’take when vitamin D deficient’ to’normal healthy adults also consume 10 ㎍ of vitamin D every day’. . Despite changing the guidelines, the UK Public Health Administration refrained from mentioning that vitamin D could help relieve symptoms of Corona 19. Instead, “Corona 19 reduces outdoor activities and increases the amount of time at home, so it’s easy to not get all the vitamin D you need for a day just by sunlight. This can increase the risk of osteoporosis.” Since vitamin D is naturally synthesized in the body when exposed to sunlight, it is supplemented with nutrients when outdoor activities are reduced or when natural synthesis is difficult due to sunscreen application.
# “The success of quarantine in New Zealand is because vitamin D was prescribed to nursing homes.”
Efforts to further explore the effects of vitamin D occurred simultaneously in the medical and political world.
First of all, an experiment followed the study of Newcastle Hospital. A research team of 66 people in a French nursing home said, “Regular taking vitamin D has something to do with improving survival.” Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the University of East Anglia announced that through a joint preliminary study, they found a correlation between European countries with low vitamin D levels and corona19 infection rates.
In Spain in September of last year, 50 Corona19 patients were administered high-dose vitamin D, and as a result, only one patient was admitted to the in-house treatment unit (ICU), and the rest reported that they suffered mild symptoms. Of the 26 patients who did not receive vitamin D as a control group, half received intensive treatment, and two of them died.
In politics, Conservative Congressman Davis and Labor Congressman Rufa Huck expressed dissatisfaction with the British health authorities’ reluctance to recommend vitamin D prescriptions to find more clear causal links. The two politicians who did not major in medicine did not hesitate to argue that it might appear as a reductionism or conspiracy theory.
Davis, 73, said he also takes high-dose vitamin D supplements every day. “Vitamin D prescriptions will help alleviate the risk of vulnerable groups such as the elderly, obese and people of color.” He criticized in a post to the British Telegraph last September, saying, “Except for Brazil and India, Corona 19 is seriously present at latitudes 40 degrees or higher (lower sunlight), and it is seriously present in winter when UV rays are reduced.” In an article in The Times, Huck argued, “It is not a coincidence that the cases of COVID-19 and deaths are rare in New Zealand, which has prescribed vitamin D to all elderly nursing homes since 2011, and Finland, where vitamin D is added to dairy products.”
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▲ Former British Minister of Brexit David Davis has been working as a vitamin D dose evangelist after the spread of Corona 19. The photo shows Davis briefing at the EU headquarters in Brussels, UK in 2017.
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# People of color have more severe vitamin D deficiency… “Official indifference is structural racism”
The two lawmakers, who criticized the lack of funding for research that needed to see if vitamin D is effective in treating COVID-19, met with British Minister of Health and Welfare Matt Hancock in October last year. Afterwards, Minister Hancock said, “I ask the scientific community to take another look at the impact of vitamin D in terms of resistance to Corona 19 and immunity.” He added, “Vitamin D is helpful for overall health and there is nothing bad about supplementing it. I will deliver.”
Since then, a clinical study of 5,000 people is being conducted at Queen Mary University of London until this summer to see if taking vitamin D can help prevent corona 19 infection. In the UK, vitamin D has also been provided to prison inmates since November last year.
If the two lawmakers, Davis and Huck, did not exert political pressure, the Guardian reported that vitamin D could have remained as a claim or myth of some doctors and hospitals without a chance to get a scientific investigation into whether or not vitamin D helps treat COVID-19 .
However, while astronomical funding for the corona vaccine was being put into the corona vaccine, he was still disappointed with the allocation structure that was not funded for clinical studies seeking a solution called vitamin D that is accessible to the vulnerable. British cardiologist and writer Asym Malhotra criticized British pharmaceutical authorities as “structural racial discrimination” for not showing enthusiasm for the recommendation of vitamin D, a measure to boost immunity among people of color. These are diagnoses that predict that not only last year when Corona 19 spread, but also this year when Corona 19 is eliminated will become a’new normal’ (structure change).
Reporter Hong Hee-kyung [email protected]
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