Monitoring vitamin D in patients would halve the number of deaths among patients infected with coronavirus, reports MedicalXpress citing a study by American scientists from Northwestern University in Illinois and British scientists from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation and the University of East Anglia. Moreover, it is unlikely that control over the level of vitamin would prevent the growth of cases of infection. But as a measure of reducing the number of deaths, it is very important.
It is noted that patients in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom showed a reduced content of vitamin D. A correlation was found between the mortality rate and a reduced level of vitamin in the body. Moreover, this can be seen in all age groups. Vitamin not only strengthens the immune system, but also controls it, preventing the “cytokine storm” – overload of the immune system, leading to death.
The discovery allows us to explain why the mortality rate from coronavirus among children is so low. They did not have time to acquire acquired immunity, which in adults during the “cytokine storm” begins to fail, disrupting the work of innate immunity, and causing acute respiratory syndrome and death in patients.
However, scientists have warned that an overdose of vitamin D does not lead to anything good either.
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