{"id":5592,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/low-vitamin-d-levels-associated-with-increased-covid-19-risk\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:54","slug":"low-vitamin-d-levels-associated-with-increased-covid-19-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/low-vitamin-d-levels-associated-with-increased-covid-19-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Low vitamin D levels associated with increased COVID-19 risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>An Israelian study found a direct association between low vitamin D levels and an increased risk of COVID-19 infections. In this study, the data of 7807 participants were used. Participants were tested on COVID-19, and blood samples were used to measure vitamin D levels. Participants who tested positive on COVID-19 had a significantly lower vitamin D level than participants who tested negatively. This means that people with a lower vitamin D level are more susceptible to COVID-19 infections. Additionally, low vitamin D levels increased the risk for hospitalization.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Merzon et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32700398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary An Israelian study found a direct association between low vitamin D levels and an increased risk of COVID-19 infections. In this study, the data of 7807 participants were used. Participants were tested on COVID-19, and blood samples were used to measure vitamin D levels. Participants who tested positive on COVID-19 had a significantly lower&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\/5592"}],"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=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}