Doctors do not seem to decide on vitamin D.
At the height of the global coronavirus outbreak, doctors have begun to see a link between vitamin D deficiency and the severity of COVID-19, with one study finding that 80% of patients eventually succumbed to the disease also had little nutrient. which we obtain mainly from sunlight.
However, these reports have been disputed by researchers who remain conservative about supplementation, asking for further research before encouraging consumers to add vitamin D capsules to their diet.
Vitamin D deficiency has long been on the rise as people spend less time working outside and spending more time in the office and online – and this is true more than ever during the pandemic.
But a new report by Spanish researchers from the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona has added evidence for the pro-D camp, especially D3 or calcifediol, as a treatment for coronavirus patients. Their study of 930 COVID-19 patients found that those who received the supplement, rather than a placebo, had a “reduced mortality rate of more than 60%,” write authors of the study. These patients were also 80% less likely to require intensive care in the hospital.
Only 36 of the 551 patients who took calcifediol died from the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the control group of 379 patients lost 57 due to the disease. Furthermore, only 5% of the group taking D3 were admitted to the ICU.
‘It supports the closure of a previous trial in Córdoba [Spain] in which calcipediol treatment results in a reduction of more than 50% in the admission of ICUs in COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital, ”according to the full report.
The findings were shared by the Social Science Research Network as pre-published material, pending review by fellow researchers. This has not deterred some policy leaders from praising the unchecked findings, such as British lawmaker David Davis, who appealed health officials in the UK to comply with the results of the study.
“Its findings are incredibly clear,” LP Davis said Sunday in a tweet that 25,000 users liked on Twitter. “An 80% reduction in the need for ICUs and a 60% reduction in deaths, simply by providing a very cheap and very safe treatment.”
However, Yale researcher F. Perry Wilson called the new report a “super sus” series of tweets Fired Sunday.
‘People, we need to talk about this vitamin D test. “I have no interest in this game – take vitamin D if you want, but this pre-press is super sissy,” he wrote.
‘If true, this would be one of (if not THE most effective) treatments for COVID. But there are problems. . ., ”Wilson suggested, pointing out that the type of“ random ”trial performed by doctors at del Mar Hospital is inconsistent with the statistical model used to produce the results.
“These are super basic things – you do not call your study a randomized trial if it is a randomized trial,” he added. “And peer reviewers would have asked them 100% to go back and redo the stats.”