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Vitamin D: The Missing Nutrient Behind the Two Deadly Pandemics, COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Diseases
Singh, Abhishek Chidharla, Anusha Agarwal, Kriti Singh, Priyanka Jain, Nidhi Hassen, Gashaw Abdelwahed, Salwa Bhandari, Renu Patel, Kajal Gupta, Sachin
Singh, Abhishek
Chidharla, Anusha
Agarwal, Kriti
Singh, Priyanka
Jain, Nidhi
Hassen, Gashaw
Abdelwahed, Salwa
Bhandari, Renu
Patel, Kajal
Gupta, Sachin
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2022-04-14
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24133
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is claiming millions of lives and creating an additional burden on health care, which is already affected by the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The scientific community, on the other side, is enormously engaged with studies to best identify the characteristics of the virus and minimize its effect while supporting the fight to contain NCDs, mainly cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), which are contributing hugely to the global death toll. Hence, the roles of vitamin D in COVID-19 immunity and cardiovascular health are gaining traction recently. This literature review will mainly focus on summarizing pertinent studies and scientific publications which highlight the association of vitamin D levels with the various outcomes of COVID-19 and CVDs. It will also address how low vitamin D correlates with the epidemiology of CVDs and the inflammatory mechanisms attributed to COVID-19 severity. We believe that our review may open up hindsight perspectives and further discussions among the physicians in tapping the potential of vitamin D supplementation to tackle the morbidity, mortality, and health care cost of the two deadly diseases, COVID-19 and CVDs.
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Singh A, Chidharla A, Agarwal K, et al. (April 14, 2022) Vitamin D: The Missing Nutrient Behind the Two Deadly Pandemics, COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Diseases. Cureus 14(4): e24133. doi:10.7759/cureus.24133
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