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Vitamin D Deficiency in the Elderly Patients and Role of Vitamin D in the Prevention of COVID-19 Infection

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  • Nauman Khan

    (Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, UK)

  • . Tahmina

    (Dow University of Health Sciences, Pakistan)

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SARS Covid'19 is declared as a global pandemic by World Health Organization [1]. The aim of this short report is to find out the association of Vitamin D in prevention of Covid'19 in elderly patients who are already having other co-morbidities. People of any age are susceptible to Corona virus but the elderly patients and patients with chronic underlying diseases are at higher risk. Many elderly patients with COVID-19 are at risk of mal-nutrition [2]. Vitamins are of two types, Lipid soluble vitamins and water-soluble vitamins [3]. Lipid soluble vitamins can be stored in the body while water soluble vitamins cannot be stored in the body, hence needed to take regularly [4]. Vitamin D is a lipid soluble vitamin also it can be synthesized by our own body.

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  • Nauman Khan & . Tahmina, 2021. "Vitamin D Deficiency in the Elderly Patients and Role of Vitamin D in the Prevention of COVID-19 Infection," European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, European Open Science, vol. 3(2), pages 8-9, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:ejmed0:v:3:y:2021:i:2:id:40765
    DOI: 10.24018/ejmed.2021.3.2.765
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