Vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 severity

COVID-19 which emerged suddenly with wide and deep effect on the life was stained by different clinical severity. Multiple studies had noted a relationship between the severity of COVID-19 and levels of vitamin D. The aim of this study was to detect the effect of vitamin D on impact of COVID-19 severity. In our endeavor we depended on data concern the subject which were obtained from a hospital interested in COVID-19 pandemic. Data of 121 COVID-19 patients (98 men and 23 women) were reviewed carefully and arranged into three groups. Group A patients were asymptomatic and with vitamin D level of 28.61ng /ml ± 3.18. Group B had moderate symptoms and 16.42ng/ml ± 4.74 level of vitamin D. Group C was 8.35ng/ml ± 4.67 and suffered the highest severity of COVID-19 symptoms which caused death of two member of this group. The fatality rate in group C was 33.33%.