SYNOPSIS
Patients with higher Vitamin D levels had significantly lower death rate.
TITLE
Vitamin D Status is Associated With In-hospital Mortality and Mechanical Ventilation: A Cohort of COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients
CITATION
Angeliki M. Angelidi, Matthew J. Belanger, Michael K. Lorinsky, Dimitrios Karamanis, Natalia Chamorro-Pareja, Jennifer Ognibene, Leonidas Palaiodimos, Christos S. Mantzoros, Vitamin D Status is Associated With In-hospital Mortality and Mechanical Ventilation: A Cohort of COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2021, ISSN 0025-6196, Https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.01.001.
SUMMARY
Retrospective of 144 patients in the USA admitted with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, those with Vitamin D levels in the accepted normal range had significantly lower mortality.