Vitamin D Cuts Complications, Risk of Death in Covid-19 Patients, Says Study
4 years, 2 months ago

Vitamin D Cuts Complications, Risk of Death in Covid-19 Patients, Says Study

News 18  

A new research adds to the growing body of evidence that patients with sufficient levels of Vitamin D are less likely to experience complications and die from Covid-19. According to the study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, hospitalised Covid-19 patients who were vitamin D sufficient, with a blood level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of at least 30 ng/mL had a significantly decreased risk for adverse clinical outcomes and death. In addition, they had lower blood levels of an inflammatory marker and higher blood levels of lymphocytes.”This study provides direct evidence that vitamin D sufficiency can reduce the complications, including the cytokine storm and ultimately death from Covid-19,” said study author Michael F. Holick from the Boston University in the US. In patients older than 40 years they observed that those patients who were vitamin D sufficient were 51.5 per cent less likely to die from the infection compared to patients who were vitamin D deficient.

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Tried and Tested Vitamin Gyaan
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Tried and Tested Vitamin Gyaan

Deccan Chronicle  

Vitamin deficiency knows no age limit. Micronutrient Malnutrition In India, we see “micronutrient malnutrition,” which essentially means a large-scale deficiency of vitamins and minerals in our population, informs Dr D. Nageshwar Reddy, chairman of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology. While these vitamins play crucial roles in energy metabolism, nerve function, and red blood cell production, excessive intake can lead to …

Vitamin D intake ‘may reduce cancer mortality in the population by 15%’ – study
1 year, 4 months ago

Vitamin D intake ‘may reduce cancer mortality in the population by 15%’ – study

The Independent  

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Taking vitamin D supplements 'could slash your chance of a heart attack by a fifth'
1 year, 5 months ago

Taking vitamin D supplements 'could slash your chance of a heart attack by a fifth'

Daily Mail  

Taking vitamin D in your 60s could reduce the chances of a heart attack by up to a fifth, new research suggests. In this study, 21,315 Australians, aged between 60-84, were given either vitamin D tablets or placebo every month for up to 5 years Researchers then examined hospital data on any major cardiovascular events, including heart attacks, strokes, and …

Low levels of vitamin D could be a risk factor for long Covid: Study
1 year, 7 months ago

Low levels of vitamin D could be a risk factor for long Covid: Study

Hindustan Times  

Long-term COVID risk has been observed to rise with low vitamin D levels, according to a study presented at the 25th European Congress of Endocrinology in Istanbul. Low vitamin D levels are one risk factor for poor outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients, such as intubation, mechanical ventilation, or death, but its function in extended COVID has not been well examined. …

Vitamin D supplements linked with lower diabetes risk: Study
1 year, 10 months ago

Vitamin D supplements linked with lower diabetes risk: Study

Hindustan Times  

Higher vitamin D intake may be associated with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in adults with prediabetes, a review of clinical trials has found. The team from Tufts Medical Center in the US conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of three clinical trials comparing vitamin D supplement impacts on diabetes risk. The researchers found that over a …

Study shows Vitamin D supplements can lower diabetes risk
1 year, 10 months ago

Study shows Vitamin D supplements can lower diabetes risk

Deccan Chronicle  

Boston: Higher vitamin D intake may be associated with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in adults with prediabetes, a review of clinical trials has found. The team from Tufts Medical Center in the US conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of three clinical trials comparing vitamin D supplement impacts on diabetes risk. The researchers found that over …

Vitamin D supplements don't work if you're too fat, study warns
1 year, 11 months ago

Vitamin D supplements don't work if you're too fat, study warns

Daily Mail  

Scientists suggested obese people were absorbing more of the vitamin They found overweight and obese people had less vitamin D in their blood Researchers in Massachusetts tracked 16,000 people for their study Vitamin D supplements may not work if you're overweight, a study suggests. Dr Tobias added: 'This study sheds light on why we're seeing 30 to 40 percent reductions …

Does Taking Vitamins Help When You Have COVID?
1 year, 11 months ago

Does Taking Vitamins Help When You Have COVID?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING With the ever-changing nature of all things COVID, combined with the blizzard of misinformation that’s out there, it’s tough to keep up with best ways to take care of yourself when you’re sick with the coronavirus. During the pandemic, some health experts have said that you don’t actually want to “boost your immune system” when you’re fighting …

Can Vitamin D Supplements Help Prevent COVID-19? Know Details Here
2 years, 3 months ago

Can Vitamin D Supplements Help Prevent COVID-19? Know Details Here

News 18  

Vitamin D is one of the most important nutrients that the human body requires. The skin has the ability to absorb the sun’s ultraviolet rays, which in turn, converts them into vitamin D. However, many people suffer from a deficit of it because of various reasons such as older age, lack of nutritious food and a darker skin tone said …

Vitamin D deficiency associated with chronic inflammation: Study
2 years, 4 months ago

Vitamin D deficiency associated with chronic inflammation: Study

Hindustan Times  

Scientists have discovered a direct link between low levels of vitamin D and high levels of inflammation, providing an important biomarker to identify people at higher risk of or severity of chronic illnesses with an inflammatory component. Lead researcher, UniSA's Dr Ang Zhou, said the findings suggest that boosting vitamin D in people with a deficiency may reduce chronic inflammation. …

Can Too Much Vitamin D Create Health Risks? Here's What Experts Have to Say
2 years, 5 months ago

Can Too Much Vitamin D Create Health Risks? Here's What Experts Have to Say

News 18  

Vitamin D has been long known for helping our bodies to absorb and retain minerals like calcium and phosphorus, which is crucial for bones. Vitamin D can be obtained from several sources including exposure to sunlight, supplements and certain food items. Apart from natural sources like saline fish, red meat, egg yolk, etc, there are supplements used by people who …

Can taking vitamins and supplements help you recover from Covid?
2 years, 7 months ago

Can taking vitamins and supplements help you recover from Covid?

Hindustan Times  

Australia’s surge in COVID cases this year has seen many people looking for ways to protect themselves or boost their immunity and recovery. In Australia, the Therapeutic Goods Administration includes vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, plant extracts and microbiome supplements under the term “complementary medicine”. Little evidence of benefits Despite the large variety of complementary medicines marketed, most clinical trials …

Does Vitamin D work on Covid after all? Israeli study finds nutrient big indicator of severity
2 years, 10 months ago

Does Vitamin D work on Covid after all? Israeli study finds nutrient big indicator of severity

Daily Mail  

McGill University in Canada. 60 per cent higher rates of Covid-19 among people with low levels of the 'sunshine vitamin'. Compared vitamin D levels in almost 200 Covid-19 hospital patients with a control group of more than 2,000 healthy people. Independent scientists say blood vitamin D levels go down when people develop serious illness, which the study did not take …

Too much vitamin D can put you at risk of these deadly diseases
2 years, 11 months ago

Too much vitamin D can put you at risk of these deadly diseases

Hindustan Times  

While there has been a lot of talk around vitamin D deficiency in Indians and the several health risks it poses from bone diseases to mental health illnesses, overdosing on vitamin D supplements can be disastrous for your health too. Vitamin D helps calcium absorption and bone building in the body Excess of vitamin D in your body can cause …

Vitamin D may not protect against COVID: Study
3 years, 6 months ago

Vitamin D may not protect against COVID: Study

India TV News  

While previous research early in the pandemic suggested that vitamin D cuts the risk of contracting Covid-19, a new study finds there is no genetic evidence that it works as a protective measure against the coronavirus. According to the researchers, including Guillaume Butler-Laporte from McGill University, vitamin D supplementation as a public health measure to improve outcomes is not supported …

Strong Links Between our Hormones and Covid-19 Confirmed. Here's What That Means
3 years, 7 months ago

Strong Links Between our Hormones and Covid-19 Confirmed. Here's What That Means

News 18  

The human body’s endocrine system that makes hormones is strongly involved in the SARS-Cov-2 infection — the virus behind Covid-19 — so much so that evidence of an “endocrine phenotype” of Coronavirus has emerged, according to a statement by the European Society of Endocrinology. A team of scientists from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain looked at the available …

Multivitamins, Omega-3, Probiotics and Vitamin D May Cut Risk of Covid-19, Says Study
3 years, 8 months ago

Multivitamins, Omega-3, Probiotics and Vitamin D May Cut Risk of Covid-19, Says Study

News 18  

Taking multivitamins, omega-3, probiotics or vitamin D supplements may reduce the risk of testing positive for the novel coronavirus which causes COVID-19, at least among women, according to a large observational study. The researchers, including those from King’s College London in the UK, drew on adult users of the COVID-19 Symptom Study app to see if regular supplement users were …

Australian clinical trial finds vitamin D does not ward off colds, flu
3 years, 11 months ago

Australian clinical trial finds vitamin D does not ward off colds, flu

Live Mint  

An Australian randomised controlled trial of vitamin D supplements, led by the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane has found they do not protect most people from developing colds, flu and other acute respiratory infections. We analysed data from the D-Health Trial to determine whether supplementing older Australian adults, recruited from the general population, with monthly doses of vitamin …

Here’s how human migration patterns are connected to Vitamin D deficiencies
3 years, 11 months ago

Here’s how human migration patterns are connected to Vitamin D deficiencies

Hindustan Times  

A new study in the Oxford Economic Papers found that people’s ability to synthesize Vitamin D from sunlight declines with skin pigmentation, and unveiled the direct association of its deficiency with a higher risk of mortality. According to the study, the migration flows in the last 500 years from high sunlight regions to low sunlight regions influence contemporary health outcomes …

Vitamin D inexpensive, low-risk, can strengthen immune response to COVID-19: Experts
3 years, 11 months ago

Vitamin D inexpensive, low-risk, can strengthen immune response to COVID-19: Experts

Hindustan Times  

There is no clinical evidence to prove low levels of Vitamin D lead to severe Covid-19 symptoms but there is a definite connect between the “sunshine vitamin” and immune responses to the disease, say experts as the pandemic spreads across the world and concerns mount over a new mutant strain. Many factors such as age, being male and comorbidities are …

Vitamin D an Inexpensive Way to Strengthen Immunity, Govts Must Include it in Strategy against Covid: Experts
3 years, 11 months ago

Vitamin D an Inexpensive Way to Strengthen Immunity, Govts Must Include it in Strategy against Covid: Experts

News 18  

There is no clinical evidence to prove low levels of Vitamin D lead to severe COVID-19 symptoms but there is a definite connect between the sunshine vitamin and immune responses to the disease, say experts as the pandemic spreads across the world and concerns mount over a new mutant strain. Many factors such as age, being male and comorbidities are …

Scientists urge government to issue Vitamin D advice, "arrogance that the government wants to wait"
3 years, 11 months ago

Scientists urge government to issue Vitamin D advice, "arrogance that the government wants to wait"

NL Times  

A group of scientists and health experts have criticized the government for their wait-and-see approach to taking vitamin D. According to the experts, more and more studies show that Vitamin D can decrease the chance of getting Covid-19 or minimize the symptoms. For example, the leading professor of Nutrition and Health at the Vrije Universiteit, Jaap Seidell, said that “waiting …

Covid-19: Men have 30% higher risk of dying from virus than women, finds study
4 years ago

Covid-19: Men have 30% higher risk of dying from virus than women, finds study

Live Mint  

According to a new study, which analysed the link between common patient characteristics and the risk of dying from the Covid-19 infection, men have a 30% higher risk of dying from the killer virus as compared to women of the same age and health status. The study also said that Covid-19 patients aged 20 to 39 with these conditions had …

Coronavirus: Do I need to start taking vitamin D during lockdown?
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus: Do I need to start taking vitamin D during lockdown?

The Independent  

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Doctors will trial whether vitamin D can protect people from Covid-19
4 years, 2 months ago

Doctors will trial whether vitamin D can protect people from Covid-19

Daily Mail  

Doctors will finally trial whether vitamin D can actually protect people from Covid-19 amid mounting evidence the 3p-a-day supplement could be a life-saver. A Singaporean study earlier in the year of nearly 800 people found almost 99% of Covid-19 patients who died had vitamin D deficiency CARE HOME RESIDENTS 'SHOULD BE GIVEN VITAMIN D' Care home residents are not being …

Vitamin D Remedy: Some Covid Protection Shining Down on Us. Indians May Take Note
4 years, 2 months ago

Vitamin D Remedy: Some Covid Protection Shining Down on Us. Indians May Take Note

News 18  

The simplest of supplements is proving extraordinarily effective against catching coronavirus, a major new study shows. The study in Boston published in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Public Library of Science One’ shows that that the risk of getting coronavirus declines steadily as Vitamin D levels increase. “The results are yet to come out, but we have seen already that those patients …

Matt Hancock wrongly claims vitamin D doesn't work for Covid-19
4 years, 2 months ago

Matt Hancock wrongly claims vitamin D doesn't work for Covid-19

Daily Mail  

Health Secretary Matt Hancock was told to 'get his facts straight' today after shooting down vitamin D as a potential coronavirus treatment despite a growing body of evidence from around the world suggesting it works. Countries with low vitamin D levels tend to have the highest case rates per million - but the graph was from a study in May, …

Coronavirus: Vitamin D can half risk of fatal complications, research finds
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus: Vitamin D can half risk of fatal complications, research finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Both studies claim that patients with sufficient levels of vitamin D are less likely to …

Vitamin D supplements 'could keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care'
4 years, 3 months ago

Vitamin D supplements 'could keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care'

Daily Mail  

Treating coronavirus patients with high doses of vitamin D supplements could help keep them out of intensive care, a study has suggested. Researchers gave high doses of calcifediol – a type of vitamin D supplement – to 50 patients hospitalised with Covid-19 in Spain. Calcifediol – a type of vitamin D supplementation – appeared to slash the risk of a …

Covid-19 Patients With Underlying Heart Conditions at Higher Death Risk, Study Confirms
4 years, 4 months ago

Covid-19 Patients With Underlying Heart Conditions at Higher Death Risk, Study Confirms

News 18  

COVID-19 patients with underlying heart conditions or risk factors may develop cardiovascular complications while hospitalised, and are more likely to die from the novel coronavirus infection, according to a review of studies which could help clinicians identify individuals at higher risk. The findings, according to the researchers, strongly suggests that COVID-19 fatality is influenced by pre-existing heart conditions and/or cardiovascular …

Link between low Vitamin D levels, high COVID-19 infection risk established by Israeli researchers
4 years, 4 months ago

Link between low Vitamin D levels, high COVID-19 infection risk established by Israeli researchers

Firstpost  

People in their 20’s and 50’s were also found to be more at-risk for COVID-19 in the study, due to social gatherings and comorbid conditions. Dr Eugene Merzon, one of the study’s lead researchers from LHS, told International Business Times that their main finding was a “significant connection between low plasma vitamin D level and the likelihood of COVID-19 infection …

Coronavirus: ‘No evidence’ vitamin D supplements protect against Covid-19, review finds
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus: ‘No evidence’ vitamin D supplements protect against Covid-19, review finds

The Independent  

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