{"id":5861,"date":"2020-04-10T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:23:00","slug":"the-role-of-vitamin-d-in-suppressing-cytokine-storm-in-covid-19-patients-and-associated-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/10\/the-role-of-vitamin-d-in-suppressing-cytokine-storm-in-covid-19-patients-and-associated-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Vitamin D in Suppressing Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients and Associated Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Data from over 5,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases from 9 countries are analyzed to investigate a potential association between severe Vitamin D deficiency and age-specific case fatality.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study find that countries with lower Vitamin D levels had higher age-specific case fatality, suggesting that proper Vitamin D supplementation may reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases by up to 15%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daneshkhah et al. (Apr 10, 2020). The Role of Vitamin D in Suppressing Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients and Associated Mortality. Pre-print downloaded Apr 10 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.08.20058578\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.08.20058578<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from over 5,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases from 9 countries are analyzed to investigate a potential association between severe Vitamin D deficiency and age-specific case fatality.\u00a0\u00a0 The study find that countries with lower Vitamin D levels had higher age-specific case fatality, suggesting that proper Vitamin D supplementation may reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/10\/the-role-of-vitamin-d-in-suppressing-cytokine-storm-in-covid-19-patients-and-associated-mortality\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}