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Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies
The purpose of this review is to systematically examine the scientific evidence investigating selenium’s relationship with COVID-19, aiming to support, or refute, the growing hypothesis that supplementation could prevent COVID-19 etiopathogenesis. In fact, immediately after the beginning of the COVI...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10222736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37241870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28104130 |
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author | Ambra, Roberto Melloni, Sahara Venneria, Eugenia |
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description | The purpose of this review is to systematically examine the scientific evidence investigating selenium’s relationship with COVID-19, aiming to support, or refute, the growing hypothesis that supplementation could prevent COVID-19 etiopathogenesis. In fact, immediately after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several speculative reviews suggested that selenium supplementation in the general population could act as a silver bullet to limit or even prevent the disease. Instead, a deep reading of the scientific reports on selenium and COVID-19 that are available to date supports neither the specific role of selenium in COVID-19 severity, nor the role of its supplementation in the prevention disease onset, nor its etiology. |
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spelling | pubmed-102227362023-05-28 Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies Ambra, Roberto Melloni, Sahara Venneria, Eugenia Molecules Review The purpose of this review is to systematically examine the scientific evidence investigating selenium’s relationship with COVID-19, aiming to support, or refute, the growing hypothesis that supplementation could prevent COVID-19 etiopathogenesis. In fact, immediately after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several speculative reviews suggested that selenium supplementation in the general population could act as a silver bullet to limit or even prevent the disease. Instead, a deep reading of the scientific reports on selenium and COVID-19 that are available to date supports neither the specific role of selenium in COVID-19 severity, nor the role of its supplementation in the prevention disease onset, nor its etiology. MDPI 2023-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10222736/ /pubmed/37241870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28104130 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Ambra, Roberto Melloni, Sahara Venneria, Eugenia Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies |
title | Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies |
title_full | Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies |
title_fullStr | Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies |
title_full_unstemmed | Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies |
title_short | Could Selenium Supplementation Prevent COVID-19? A Comprehensive Review of Available Studies |
title_sort | could selenium supplementation prevent covid-19? a comprehensive review of available studies |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10222736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37241870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28104130 |
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