Brasilia-Sana
A new Brazilian study revealed that a high dose of vitamin D does not have a beneficial effect on patients with moderate or severe Corona virus.
According to the study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association "JAMA", researchers at the University of Sao Paulo College of Medicine in Brazil conducted their study on 240 patients who were treated for the Coronavirus in a number of São Paulo hospitals from June to August 2020.
The study indicated that researchers divided volunteers randomly into two groups. The first group was given vitamin D in a single dose of 200,000 units dissolved in a peanut oil solution, and the second group was only given a peanut oil solution. All participants were treated according to the standard hospital treatment protocol for disease, which includes administration. Antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, but researchers did not note any significant difference between the groups for any of these clinical outcomes.
Dr. Rosa Pereira, the lead author of the study, said: Studies or laboratory experiments on animals previously showed that in certain cases, vitamin D could have anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial effects in addition to modulating the immune response.
The study showed that the ideal level of vitamin D in the blood varies according to age and general health.