{"id":3622,"date":"2021-02-02T21:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:29:29","slug":"genetically-predicted-serum-vitamin-d-and-covid-19-a-mendelian-randomization-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/02\/genetically-predicted-serum-vitamin-d-and-covid-19-a-mendelian-randomization-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetically Predicted Serum Vitamin D and COVID-19 a Mendelian Randomization Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] <\/i>Long-term vitamin D nutritional status does not causally affect susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection or more severe COVID-19 disease course, according to a two-sample Mendelian randomization study of a European cohort. No elevation in the risk of COVID infection, hospitalization, or progression to severe COVID-19 was associated with serum vitamin D status in the cohort of 18,000 COVID-19 cases and 1.4 million controls from the UK Biobank and SUNLIGHT Consortium that used single nucleotide polymorphisms to predict differences in long-term serum vitamin D levels.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Patchen et al. (Feb 1, 2021). Genetically Predicted Serum Vitamin D and COVID-19 a Mendelian Randomization Study. Pre-print downloaded Feb 2 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.01.29.21250759\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.01.29.21250759<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Long-term vitamin D nutritional status does not causally affect susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection or more severe COVID-19 disease course, according to a two-sample Mendelian randomization study of a European cohort. No elevation in the risk of COVID infection, hospitalization, or progression to severe COVID-19 was associated with serum vitamin D status&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/02\/genetically-predicted-serum-vitamin-d-and-covid-19-a-mendelian-randomization-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}