https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/513794
標題: | ‘Scientific Strabismus’ or Two Related Pandemics: COVID-19 & Vitamin D Deficiency | 作者: | Kara M. Ekiz T. Ricci V. Kara Ö. KE-VIN CHANG Özçakar L. |
關鍵字: | Acute respiratory syndrome; Coronavirus; Death; Europe; Insufficiency | 公開日期: | 2020 | 出版社: | Cambridge University Press | 來源出版物: | British Journal of Nutrition | 摘要: | The WHO has announced the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak to be a global pandemic. The distribution of community outbreaks shows seasonal patterns along certain latitude, temperature and humidity, that is, similar to the behaviour of seasonal viral respiratory tract infections. COVID-19 displays significant spread in northern mid-latitude countries with an average temperature of 5-11°C and low humidity. Vitamin D deficiency has also been described as pandemic, especially in Europe. Regardless of age, ethnicity and latitude, recent data showed that 40 % of Europeans are vitamin D deficient (25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels <50 nmol/l), and 13 % are severely deficient (25(OH)D < 30 nmol/l). A quadratic relationship was found between the prevalences of vitamin D deficiency in most commonly affected countries by COVID-19 and the latitudes. Vitamin D deficiency is more common in the subtropical and mid-latitude countries than the tropical and high-latitude countries. The most commonly affected countries with severe vitamin D deficiency are from the subtropical (Saudi Arabia 46 %; Qatar 46 %; Iran 33·4 %; Chile 26·4 %) and mid-latitude (France 27·3 %; Portugal 21·2 %; Austria 19·3 %) regions. Severe vitamin D deficiency was found to be nearly 0 % in some high-latitude countries (e.g. Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Netherlands). Accordingly, we would like to call attention to the possible association between severe vitamin D deficiency and mortality pertaining to COVID-19. Given its rare side effects and relatively wide safety, prophylactic vitamin D supplementation and/or food fortification might reasonably serve as a very convenient adjuvant therapy for these two worldwide public health problems alike. ? The Authors 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085107670&doi=10.1017%2fS0007114520001749&partnerID=40&md5=fee043bf02876e0cfb7942a49f32f14e https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/513794 |
ISSN: | 0007-1145 | DOI: | 10.1017/S0007114520001749 | SDG/關鍵字: | 25 hydroxyvitamin D; vitamin D; vitamin D; age; antimicrobial activity; Article; Austria; cardiovascular disease; Chile; chronic respiratory tract disease; comorbidity; coronavirus disease 2019; Denmark; diabetes mellitus; disease association; disease severity; drug safety; environmental temperature; ethnicity; Europe; European; Finland; France; human; humidity; hypertension; infection risk; Iran; latitude; malignant neoplasm; mortality; Netherlands; Norway; pandemic; patient safety; Portugal; prevalence; prophylaxis; public health problem; Qatar; respiratory tract infection; Saudi Arabia; seasonal variation; strabismus; sun exposure; Sweden; tropics; ultraviolet B radiation; ultraviolet C radiation; viral respiratory tract infection; vitamin D deficiency; vitamin supplementation; Coronavirus infection; dietary supplement; global health; virus pneumonia; vitamin D deficiency; Age Factors; Comorbidity; Coronavirus Infections; Dietary Supplements; Europe; Global Health; Humans; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; Vitamin D; Vitamin D Deficiency |
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