{"id":106423,"date":"2020-05-02T19:32:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T02:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-second-study-on-vitamin-d-and-covid-19-is-now-out"},"modified":"2020-05-02T19:32:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T02:32:54","slug":"the-second-study-on-vitamin-d-and-covid-19-is-now-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-second-study-on-vitamin-d-and-covid-19-is-now-out","title":{"rendered":"The Second Study on Vitamin D and COVID-19 Is Now Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-second-study-on-vitamin-d-and-covid-19-is-now-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chrismasterjohnphd.com\/covid-19\/update-on-vitamin-d-and-covid-19-using-the-first-observational-study-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first study<\/a> on vitamin D and COVID-19 was released as a preprint on April 23, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3585561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second study<\/a> was released as a preprint on April 26. Here\u2019s what we can learn from the second study. The first study, which I reported on a few days ago, focused on disease severity, while the second one, which I\u2019m reporting on here, focused on mortality.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Results<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The electronic health records of 780 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases from the government hospitals of Indonesia between March 2 and April 24 was searched for data on vitamin D status prior to admission, age, sex, preexisting conditions, and mortality. Vitamin D status was classified as normal (\u226530 ng\/mL), insufficient (21\u221229 ng\/mL), or deficient (\u226420 ng\/mL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first study on vitamin D and COVID-19 was released as a preprint on April 23, and a second study was released as a preprint on April 26. Here\u2019s what we can learn from the second study. The first study, which I reported on a few days ago, focused on disease severity, while the second [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,1495,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}