Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Patras, Greece.
Infez Med. 2021 Jun 1;29(2):224-228.
Vitamin D deficiency has been associated to respiratory tract infections. We aimed to investigate vitamin D plasma levels in patients with chest infection with and without COVID-19 in a hospitalized population during the second pandemic wave. A prospective study was conducted in a Mediterranean tertiary center referring to 80 patients suffering from chest infection, who were divided into two groups according to a positive test for SARS-CoV-2 infection. The hospitalized COVID-19 patients had a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, and these patients also exhibited higher levels of plasma inflammatory markers. Intensive research is required to identify the role and mechanisms of vitamin D in patients with SARSCoV-2 infection and its possible role as a prognostic factor of the disease.
维生素 D 缺乏与呼吸道感染有关。我们旨在调查第二波大流行期间住院人群中患有 COVID-19 与不患有 COVID-19 的胸部感染患者的血浆维生素 D 水平。在一个地中海三级中心进行了一项前瞻性研究，涉及 80 例患有胸部感染的患者，根据 SARS-CoV-2 感染的阳性测试结果将他们分为两组。住院的 COVID-19 患者维生素 D 缺乏的患病率很高，这些患者的血浆炎症标志物水平也更高。需要进行深入研究以确定维生素 D 在 SARSCoV-2 感染患者中的作用和机制及其作为疾病预后因素的可能作用。
