According to Unite Arab Emirates Department of Health Examination, People with vitamin D deficiency are at higher risk to catch Covid-19.
The Department of Health, Abu Dhabi, is contemporarily engaged in inspiring the community to enhance their vitamin D intensities.
The learning and examination of 522 COVID-19 patients in the United Arab Emirates originate that 59 percent of patients with vitamin D insufficiency are exposed to additional and severe symptoms. It is also reported that more than 70 percent of the United Arab Emirates inhabitants are calcium deficient.
Foreign media reported vitamin D deficiency,
“A United Arab Emirates study has found a strong correlation between vitamin D deficiency and the severity of COVID-19 infections.”
The study and research directed by Dr. Habiba Al Safar, an Emirati research scholar, and Dr. Fatme Al Anouti, an Associate Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at Zayed University, has been considered applicable by Abu Dhabi Health Research Ethics Committee.
As the sternness of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has resulted from the occurrence of pneumonia, severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), myocarditis, microvascular thrombosis, and/or cytokine storms. A chief defense against unrestrained inflammation, and viral infection, is provided by Regulatory T lymphocytes (Tregs). Treg levels have been reported to be truncated in numerous COVID-19 patients and its scarcity can be avoided by vitamin D supplementation.
Low vitamin D levels are directly allied with an intensification in inflammatory cytokines and an augmented danger of pneumonia and viral upper respiratory tract infections which are the symptoms of Covid-19. Moreover, Vitamin D shortage is directly associated with a proliferation in thrombotic episodes, which are commonly observed in COVID-19. These disorders are described to carry greater mortality in COVID-19.
There are several international studies and research investigations that are conducted and have acknowledged the correspondence between vitamin D deficiency and the severity of viral infections, such as influenza.
So there is a clear and authentic confirmation from comprehensive studies that specify that lower vitamin D levels are frequently related to the risk of obtaining Covid-19 and then its severity ultimately leads to death from COVID-19 among hospitalized patients.
The learning and study of the relationship between Covid-10 and Calcium deficiency create an authentic fact that patients who had suffered severe infection were either older or more obese than other participants.
Vitamin D deficiency is present in 30–60% of the populations of western, southern, and eastern Europe and up to 80% of populations in middle-eastern countries. In addition, even more, severe deficiency is reported in over 10% of Europeans.
Low levels of vitamin D are also associated with an increase in inflammatory cytokines. People with vitamin D deficiency are at higher risk to catch Covid-19 because of vulnerability in health.
Sources
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7385774/
https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/vitamin-d-covid.html
https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-2020/vitamins-covid.html
https://tropmedhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41182-020-00277-w
