- People with low vitamin D after being hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to develop long COVID compared to people without a vitamin D deficiency, a new study finds.
- The controlled study was designed to remove as many unknown variables as possible, producing what the authors consider a robust finding.
- Researchers assessed vitamin D levels in participants upon release from the hospital and again six months later, at which time they were also screened for symptoms of long COVID.
- The symptoms associated with long COVID that were most likely to occur with a vitamin D deficiency included negative cognitive effects.
Around 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. who get COVID-19 eventually develop long COVID, according to the
But long COVID affects 50% to 70% of people who’ve been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a new study that explores a link between vitamin D deficiency and long COVID.
The researchers looked at vitamin D levels of people with COVID-19 upon hospital admission and again six months after discharge. They observed that those with long COVID had lower levels of vitamin D than those who did not have the condition.
Lead investigator Dr. Andrea Giustina, professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, in Milan, Italy, told Medical News Today:
“The clinical area of long COVID in which we found a more relevant influence of low vitamin D was the neurocognitive one.”
The findings of the research were recently published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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