Authors: Natalie Pattison, Richard J Mellanby, Ian Handel, Timothy S Walsh, Marlies Ostermann, Mark Lyttle, Adriano G Rossi, David M Griffith, Manu Shankar-Hari, Carlo Palmieri, Lance Turtle, Alexander J Mentzer, Lewis W S Fisher, James Scott-Brown, Danai Papakonstantinou, Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas, Kerri Devine, Daniel G Wootton, Padmasayee Papineni, Benjamin W A Catterall, Lara Lavelle-Langham, Emily Cass, Alejandra Doce Carracedo, Lisa Flaherty, Nicole Maziere, Hannah Massey, Anthony Holmes, Nicola Carlucci, Matthew K O'Shea, Emma A Hurst, Natalie Z Homer, Scott G Denham, Paul A Holloway, Romit J Samanta, Thushan de Silva, A A Roger Thompson, Ruth Lyons, Murray Wham, Sara Clohisey, Sara McDonald, Seán Keating, Lorna Finch, Lee Murphy, Nicola Wrobel, Sarah McCafferty, Kirstie Morrice, Alan MacLean, Erin L Aldera, Sneha Basude, Steven Laird, Antonia Ying Wai Ho
Venue: BMJ Open
Type: Publication
Abstract: ObjectivesThe steroid hormone vitamin D has roles in immunomodulation and bone health. Insufficiency is associated with susceptibility to respiratory infections. We report 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) measurements in hospitalised people with COVID-19 and influenza A and in survivors of critical illness to test the hypotheses that vitamin D insufficiency scales with illness severity and persists in survivors.DesignCross-sectional study.Setting and participantsPlasma was obtained from 295 hospitalised people with COVID-19 (International Severe ...
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Topics: 
Intensive care medicine
Virology
Pediatrics
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