‘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 |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Acute respiratory syndrome
medicine.medical_specialty Pneumonia Viral Medicine (miscellaneous) vitamin D deficiency Betacoronavirus Sleep Apnea Syndromes Pandemic Global health medicine Vitamin D and neurology Humans Vitamin D Pandemics Nutrition and Dietetics Respiratory tract infections SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Public health Food fortification Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology COVID-19 Outbreak Full Papers Vitamin D Deficiency medicine.disease Coronavirus Death Insufficiency Europe Strabismus Quarantine Coronavirus Infections business Demography |
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 |
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