Commentary. Eliminating Vitamin D Deficiency During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action
Long known as critical for bone health, and increasingly recognized as important for cardiometabolic and other non-skeletal outcomes, vitamin D has most recently attracted interest for its possible protective role against COVID-19. If vitamin D is beneficial in this regard —and accumulating evidence suggests that it may be—then the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in the United States and globally, especially among nonwhite racial/ethnic groups, is cause for heightened concern and should be rectified expeditiously.
Source: Metabolism - Clinical and Experimental - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: JoAnn E. Manson, Shari S. Bassuk Source Type: research
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