Research: Vitamin D deficiency may increase the risk of severe illness and death from the new crown

Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem, June 17 (Reporter Lv Yingxu Shanghao) Israeli researchers recently reported on the US preprinted website Medical Paper Archives that if people who are deficient in vitamin D are infected with the new crown, they are more likely to be compared with people with normal vitamin D levels.
May develop into severe illness or even death
.

Researchers from Israel's Bar-Ilan University and other institutions conducted a retrospective study on the data of 1,176 new crown patients who were treated at the Galilee Medical Center from April last year to February this year
.

The researchers said in the paper that they analyzed the data and found that among the 253 new coronary patients with vitamin D level data, the mortality rate of vitamin D deficiency was 25.
6%, and the mortality rate of normal vitamin D levels was 2.
3%
.

Dr.
Amir Dror Bar-Ilan University, in charge of the study, told local media, despite ample sunshine Israel, but there is still lack of vitamin D
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Vitamin D is also known as the "sunlight vitamin".
Regular exposure to sunlight will play a key role in the production of vitamin D and the absorption of calcium
.