A new research study at the University of Chicago Medicine has found that when it comes to COVID-19, having vitamin D levels above those traditionally considered sufficient may lower the risk of infection, especially for Black people.
The study, published in JAMA Open Network on March 19, retrospectively examined the relationship between vitamin D levels and likelihood of testing positive for COVID-19. While levels of 30 ng/ml or more are usually considered sufficient, the authors found that Black individuals who had levels of 30 to 40 ng/ml had a 2.64 times higher risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than people with levels of 40 ng/ml or greater. Statistically significant associations of vitamin D levels with COVID-19 risk were not found in white people. The study looked at data from more than 3,000 patients at UChicago Medicine who had had their vitamin D levels tested within 14 days before a COVID-19 test.
The research team is now recruiting participants for two separate clinical trials testing the efficacy of vitamin D supplements for preventing COVID-19.
This research is an expansion of an earlier study showing that a vitamin D deficiency (less than 20 ng/ml) may raise the risk of testing positive for COVID-19. In the current study, those results were further supported, finding that individuals with a vitamin D deficiency had a 7.2% chance of testing positive for the virus. A separate study recently found that more than 80% of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were vitamin D deficient.
“These new results tell us that having vitamin D levels above those normally considered sufficient is associated with decreased risk of testing positive for COVID-19, at least in Black individuals,” said David Meltzer, MD, PhD, Chief of Hospital Medicine at UChicago Medicine and lead author of the study. “This supports arguments for designing clinical trials that can test whether or not vitamin D may be a viable intervention to lower the risk of the disease, especially in persons of color.”
Meltzer was inspired to investigate this topic after seeing an article in early 2020 that found people with vitamin D deficiency who were randomly assigned to receive vitamin D supplementation had much lower rates of viral respiratory infections compared to those who did not receive supplementation. He decided to examine data being collected at UChicago Medicine on COVID-19 to determine the role that vitamin D levels might be playing.
“There’s a lot of literature on vitamin D. Most of it has been focused on bone health, which is where the current standards for sufficient vitamin D levels come from,” Meltzer explained. “But there’s also some evidence that vitamin D might improve immune function and decrease inflammation. So far, the data has been relatively inconclusive. Based on these results, we think that earlier studies may have given doses that were too low to have much of an effect on the immune system, even if they were sufficient for bone health. It may be that different levels of vitamin D are adequate for different functions.”
Vitamin D can be obtained through diet or supplements, or produced by the body in response to exposure of the skin to sunlight. Meltzer noted that most individuals, especially people with darker skin, have lower levels of vitamin D; roughly half of the world’s population has levels below 30 ng/ml.
“Lifeguards, surfers, those are the kinds of folks who tend to have more than sufficient vitamin D levels,” he said. “Most folks living in Chicago in the winter are going to have levels that are well below that.”
While vitamin D supplements are relatively safe to take, excessive consumption of vitamin D supplements is associated with hypercalcemia, a condition in which calcium builds up in the blood stream and causes nausea, vomiting, weakness, and frequent urination. If left unchecked, it can further lead to bone pain and kidney stones.
“Currently, the adult recommended dietary allowance for vitamin D is 600 to 800 international units (IUs) per day,” said Meltzer. “The National Academy of Medicine has said that taking up to 4,000 IUs per day is safe for the vast majority of people, and risk of hypercalcemia increases at levels over 10,000 IUs per day.”
One of the challenges of this study is that it is currently difficult to determine exactly how vitamin D may be supporting immune function.
“This is an observational study,” Meltzer said. “We can see that there’s an association between vitamin D levels and likelihood of a COVID-19 diagnosis, but we don’t know exactly why that is, or whether these results are due to the vitamin D directly or other related biological factors.”
Prompted by the evidence that people with vitamin D deficiency are more likely to test positive for COVID-19 and experience significant symptoms, a team from the University of Chicago and Rush University is conducting two studies to learn whether taking a daily vitamin D supplement can help prevent COVID-19 or decrease the severity of its symptoms. The Ingalls Development Foundation recently committed $35,000 to help fund the study. Individuals who would like to learn more about the study and determine their eligibility may visit https://chess.uchicago.edu/vitd/
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Auntie is thinking that vitamin D ( see work by Dr. Lindaus, a German, for discoveries and Nobel Prize for work regarding vit. D), is probably rayssiss and also product of systemic whiteness which oppresses persons of color: yes/no/maybe?
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/134/6/1299/4688802
5,000 iu of vitamin D costs almost ten cents a day. How can black & brown people afford that?!?! So yes, racism.
Like they pay for any of the shit they shoplift.
FYI them’s “reparations”:
Are you saying that vitamin D is racist?
RW, considering that white skin is 400 times more efficient at
converting sunshine into Vitamin D than black skin, it is quite
obviously raysiss……….
Fauci is on record saying he takes 8-9,000 international units of vitamin D each day during the fall & winter. Did he or the CDC or the National Institutes of Health suggest that Americans supplement with vitamin D? No. For them he recommended totally-worthless Remdesivir @ $3,300 per treatment. He’s been interviewed three times a day for the last 400 days and not one single “journalist” has ever asked whether he’s ever had any financial interest in Gilead Sciences (maker of Remdesivir). I’d also like to know if he owns stock in any casket companies.
He’ll be hired by one of these companies after the fact. That’s how it works.
Same with the upper rank military officers and defense contractors.
If someone bothers to look it up, I am sure it is on record which ones are paying him. And then assume a lot more like what you are saying.
This should be called the Vitamin Duh post!
“A separate study recently found that more than 80% of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were vitamin D deficient.”
Is there a name for people who know these things a year ahead of the scientists?
Farmers
Hey – I guess I’m a farmer! Woo hoo! And here I thought growing a few green beans was an accomplishment.
Farmers and old white guys.
And this is one of the reasons we know that this circus was a fraud and psyop. Those running this operation never spoke of nutrition, they never spoke of the immune system, they never spoke of personal responsibility – it was never about being healthy, it was about being injected with a mystery solution.
Chicken dinner!
And what’s up with the alzheimer administration having to spend ONE BILLION dollars in propaganda advertising to encourage people to get injected?
They got a discount from Facebook?
Oh, I didn’t realize it was that simple. I thought perhaps the injection manufacturers threw in a billion out of the 100 billion they will make. Bottom line, I do know of one assegai that will not be impressed with their effort.
It would be kind of funny if people who have Alzheimers kept forgetting they’d gotten the vaccine and kept going back over and over and over. Meanwhile the thirtysomething worriers would wonder when they’re ever going to get their turn.
The 30 something worriers should hope they never get the shot.
Then we would truly have super shedders
And here is another one of their stupid/ignorant/fear-mongering commands that just came tumbling down.
“The CDC relaxed its rules on cleaning to prevent COVID-19, saying intense disinfectants are likely doing us more harm than good”. One year later, they have now figured out they were wrong regarding cleanliness, but the miracle juices that we are injecting you with, trust us on those!
The CDC said “The coronavirus very rarely spreads to people from surfaces, the agency said. ” To repeat, they did not know jack about cleanliness, but they are total experts at Warp Speed inventing never before been done miracle injections!
https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-relaxed-cleaning-rules-disinfectants-for-covid-19-not-necessary-2021-4?op=1
They did get people staying indoors all winter. Just one of the many practices to drum up a false sense of a pandemic and even that was pathetic. The masks and the distancing were all designed to INCREASE infection rates.
Gee…..
Stop an epidemic with an OTC med that costs pennies…
OR
Pump bullshit 24/7 to an isolated scared population, pimp expensive meds/demon vaxs you get paid billions for with zero liability, get OrangeManBad out and go for total control of the US.
I guess it is door #2!!
We. Are. Doomed.
Yup.
I’ll be just fine. All the way until I am not. Same as always.
Im not doomed.
Lots of ‘studies “suggest”‘ a lot of things. If the PROOF is not apparent or overwhelming, reject the premise.
That’s kind of like why people kept smoking cigarettes (“coffin nails”) throughout the 20th century – because it wasn’t “proven” to cause lung cancer. It just correlated amazingly closely.
Like every flu season. Take care of yourself. Vitamin D and C, some Zinc. Get the sun on the skin if possible.
Starting in 2015 there were reports by a Canadian group and then followed up by a California university that the group that sets RDAs made a calculation error (more like a blunder, but no one lost their job) that resulted in the RDA for vitamin D being severely understated. Their corrected calculations provided a range between approximately 7,000 and 9,000 IU/day for adults. Of course, all that happened before Dr. Fookery’s chinese friends invented the covid bug. A simple search on something like “vitamin D RDA error” will lead you there.
Vitamin D, primarily in the form of sunshine, is the number one booster of the immune system and is the first line of defense against harmful viruses. This is a lesson for today and for the future when the Global powers that be unleash more viruses against us.
Vitamin D be rassis. Must be white people’s fault.
And in other news: oxygen is needed to live.
Between the Ivermectin, hcq, vitamin d charade the FDA pulled and CDC, it is safe to say that no lawsuit regarding EUA for the human extinction vax when perfectly safe alternative treatments were available will see a trial.
Vitamnin d, sun, water, exercise and proteins/ fats diet will keep you living a lot longer than the fuck fuck goose game the feds are shoveling.
ZFG, out.
P.S. Fraudci even admits to taking 8,000 to 9,000 iu of D a day. Now if only a blue whale pod would give him the whale D up his weasel ass then all would be good.