COVID-19 infection, inception and immunity: Observations and recommendations in the light of vitamin D?

Responsive immunity plays an important role fighting against infections. Worldwide, Vitamin D deficiency is a major concern not only for musculoskeletal health but also affecting the immunity status in population. Amidst COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to establish the role of vitamin D in destr...

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Autores principales: Dixit, Vivek, Garg, Bhavuk, Mehta, Nishank, Pegrum, James, Dhanwal, Dinesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7816858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33751982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.01.007
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spelling pubmed-78168582021-01-21 COVID-19 infection, inception and immunity: Observations and recommendations in the light of vitamin D? Dixit, Vivek Garg, Bhavuk Mehta, Nishank Pegrum, James Dhanwal, Dinesh J Infect Public Health Letter to the Editor Responsive immunity plays an important role fighting against infections. Worldwide, Vitamin D deficiency is a major concern not only for musculoskeletal health but also affecting the immunity status in population. Amidst COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to establish the role of vitamin D in destruction of pathogens. Vitamin D awareness program at school level might be an effective health governance policy to educate populations for the importance of vitamin D in overall health. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021-04 2021-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7816858/ /pubmed/33751982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.01.007 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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COVID-19 infection, inception and immunity: Observations and recommendations in the light of vitamin D?
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