Covid-19 and vit-d: Disease mortality negatively correlates with sunlight exposure
| Autor: | Edouard Lansiaux, Joachim Forget, Jean-Laurent Picard, Philippe Pierre Pébaÿ |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis 030231 tropical medicine Geography Planning and Development Disease medicine.disease_cause Article vitamin D deficiency 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Vitamin D and neurology 030212 general & internal medicine Vitamin D Coronavirus Sunlight business.industry Public health Mortality rate COVID-19 Phototherapy medicine.disease Correlation UV Infectious Diseases Infectious disease (medical specialty) France business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology |
| ISSN: | 1877-5845 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.sste.2020.100362 |
| Popis: | The novel COVID-19 disease is a contagious acute respiratory infectious disease whose causative agent has been demonstrated to be a new virus of the coronavirus family, SARS-CoV-2. Alike with other coronaviruses, some studies show a COVID-19 neurotropism, inducing de-myelination lesions as encountered in Guillain-Barré syndrome. In particular, an Italian report concluded that there is a significant vitamin D deficiency in COVID-19 infected patients. In the current study, we applied a Pearson correlation test to public health as well as weather data, in order to assess the linear relationship between COVID-19 mortality rate and the sunlight exposure. For instance in continental metropolitan France, average annual sunlight hours are significantly (for a p-value of 1.532 × 10−32) correlated to the COVID-19 mortality rate, with a Pearson coefficient of -0.636. This correlation hints at a protective effect of sunlight exposure against COVID-19 mortality. This paper is proposed to foster academic discussion and its hypotheses and conclusions need to be confirmed by further research. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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