Letter: Covid-19, and vitamin D

Vitamin C and COVID-19

  Corona disease has killed at least 5 million people globally since it started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (World Health Organization, 2021). The disease is caused by SARS-COVID-19, and is transmitted from person to person by respiratory droplets (Baladia et al., 2020, Ejaz et al., 2020). Although the early symptoms of COVID-19  include fever, weariness, headache, sore throat, cough, d...

Can Raising Vitamin D Status Slow Down Covid-19 Waves?

Several mitigation and suppression policies, such as social distancing, city lockdowns, remote working, testing, providing personal protective equipment and health care resource availability have been implemented by the governments in response to Covid-19 pandemic. Until now (October 23, 2020), over 1.14 million deaths in the world including 31,650 just in Iran have been officially attributed t...

Vitamin D and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19); Is Deficiency and Maintenance Supplementation Therapy Necessary?

Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin with a well-known general metabolism and actions in bone structure and immune system regulation. Vitamin D exhibits direct antimicrobial activities against a spectrum of microbes, including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, enveloped and non-enveloped viruses, as well as fungi. An observational study showed that concentrations of 38 ng/ml or more were ...

Comparison of serum vitamin D levels in elderly patients with and without Covid-19

Background and purpose: due to the occurrence of covid-19 disease in the world and the lack of standard treatment for this disease, a lot of research was done to find the causes of the disease and the methods of treatment. and is not infected with covid 19. Materials and methods: This study is a case-control study and its statistical population was elderly people who referred to Bandargaz city...

Promote COVID-19 vaccination uptake: a letter to editor

Role of Oral Cavity in COVID-19 : Letter to Editor

On December 2019, a large number of pneumonia cases with unknown etiology were reported in Wuhan, China. In specimens taken from the throat with a swab, a new virus was founded, which was called COVID-19 by WHO. Due to the small number of studies, we decided to investigate the role of the oral cavity in this disease.