“Vitamin D lowers corona patient mortality rate by 57%”

Spanish research team “Effects for prevention… Vitamin D should be maintained.”
A study found that administration of vitamin D to patients with novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) can significantly reduce the mortality rate.

Foreign media such as UK Telegraph reported on the 14th (local time) that the mortality rate fell by 57% as a result of administering high-dose vitamin D to patients with Corona 19, citing a study from the University of Barcelona, ​​Spain. The researchers predicted that maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D in the body would also be important in preventing COVID-19.

According to the researchers,’calcifediol’ containing vitamin D significantly reduced the onset of severe symptoms and mortality of Corona 19. Telegraph analyzed that calcifediol is twice as effective as dexamethasone, a steroid drug that has been known to reduce mortality by 30% among drugs used to treat COVID-19 so far.

The researchers administered 5 doses of calcifediol containing vitamin D to 551 corona19 patients admitted to Barcelona Del Mar hospital. The researchers explained that 36 (6.5%) of patients receiving calcifediol died, while 57 (15%) of 379 control patients died. However, the researchers concluded that “calcifediol was not effective for patients already admitted to the intensive care unit,” and concluded that “early administration of calcifediol is crucial for reducing mortality.” Last year, researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK published a study on the correlation between Corona 19 infection and vitamin D. According to a study, Corona 19 mortality rates were high in southern Europeans Italy and Spain, but it was analyzed that the vitamin D levels of the two countries were less than average. Vitamin D is also called’sunshine vitamin’ because it is synthesized in the body through the skin exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Reporter Lim [email protected]Go to reporter page>