‘Scientific Strabismus’ or two related pandemics: coronavirus disease and vitamin D deficiency

Autor: Vincenzo Ricci, Levent Özçakar, Murat Kara, Özgür Kara, Timur Ekiz, Ke-Vin Chang
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: British Journal of Nutrition
The British Journal of Nutrition
ISSN: 1475-2662
0007-1145
DOI: 10.1017/s0007114520001749
Popis: 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
Databáze: OpenAIRE