It is making noise in healthcare environments, as it bounces from Spain. In the Iberian state, the pandemic has taken on an exceptional scale. Meanwhile, however, a group of researchers led by José Hernández of the University of Cantabria in Santander has noticed an aspect in patients hospitalized for Covid: vitamin D deficiency. Can feeding our body with a vitamin save us from coronavirus? Meanwhile, the study was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The research sampled 216 coronavirus positive patients admitted to the university hospital and 197 people from the control group.
The researchers want to deepen the topic and understand the possible link between Covid-19 and carence of this nutrient in man. Vitamin D plays an important role in the proper functioning of the immune system. Previous epidemiological studies have already shown that vitamin D deficiency in the human body is more prevalent where the pandemic is greatest. Consequently resulting in more deaths.
The study was done not on the pandemic wave, which is still ongoing, but the one that took place between March and June. As a result of medical examinations, 8 out of 10 Spanish hospitalized patients presented a vitamin D deficiency. In addition, men had greater vitamin D deficiency than women.
Not only. Male patients had a prevalence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease and high levels of ferritin and troponin in the blood.
Studies are ongoing
While this case is being analyzed in Spain, in Great Britain it is further ahead with a vast clinical trial to actually understand if vitamin D can save us from the coronavirus. Indeed, it cannot be excluded that vitamin D may have a protective role against Covid-19.
For now we are stuck in an observational study, because it was carried out in a single hospital center, where there are similar backgrounds and ethnicities. Meanwhile, the road to knowing if a vitamin can save us from the coronavirus is still long. The Ministry of Health has repeatedly reiterated that there is no scientific evidence.
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