Correlation Between Serum Levels of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Severity of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients Assessed by Pneumonia Severity Index: An Observational Descriptive Study

Introduction Pneumonia severity index (PSI) is a prognostic index used for estimating the possibility of death due to community-acquired pneumonia. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, essential for calcium and phosphate homeostasis. Vitamin D also has antimicrobial properties and according to recent...

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Autores principales: Georgakopoulou, Vasiliki E, Mantzouranis, Konstantinos, Damaskos, Christos, Karakou, Evgenia, Melemeni, Despoina, Mermigkis, Dimitrios, Petsinis, Georgios, Sklapani, Pagona, Trakas, Nikolaos, Tsiafaki, Xanthi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7398711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32765992
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8947

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