{"id":5588,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/covid-19-poor-outcomes-in-patients-with-zinc-deficiency\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:53","slug":"covid-19-poor-outcomes-in-patients-with-zinc-deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/covid-19-poor-outcomes-in-patients-with-zinc-deficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Poor outcomes in patients with zinc deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>In a study conducted by several Indian research institutes, the zinc levels of 47 Covid-19 patients were compared with the zinc levels of 45 healthy people (control group). The results showed that a significant number of the involved Covid-19 patients (57,4%) had a zinc deficiency compared to the control group. These patients developed more complications, which were associated with a prolonged hospital stay and increased mortality. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Jothimani et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32920234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary In a study conducted by several Indian research institutes, the zinc levels of 47 Covid-19 patients were compared with the zinc levels of 45 healthy people (control group). The results showed that a significant number of the involved Covid-19 patients (57,4%) had a zinc deficiency compared to the control group. These patients developed more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5588\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}