Vitamin D Serum Levels in Subjects Tested for SARS-CoV-2: What Are the Differences among Acute, Healed, and Negative COVID-19 Patients? A Multicenter Real-Practice Study
Gallelli et al.,
Vitamin D Serum Levels in Subjects Tested for SARS-CoV-2: What Are the Differences among Acute, Healed, and..,
Nutrients, doi:10.3390/nu13113932
Analysis of 117 patients in Italy, showing COVID-19 patients had significantly lower vitamin D levels than control patients.
Gallelli et al., 3 Nov 2021, prospective, Italy, peer-reviewed, 17 authors.
Abstract: nutrients
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Vitamin D Serum Levels in Subjects Tested for SARS-CoV-2:
What Are the Differences among Acute, Healed, and Negative
COVID-19 Patients? A Multicenter Real-Practice Study
Luca Gallelli 1,‡ , Gaia Chiara Mannino 2,‡ , Filippo Luciani 3 , Alessandro de Sire 4, * , Elettra Mancuso 2 ,
Pietro Gangemi 5 , Lucio Cosco 6 , Giuseppe Monea 2 , Carolina Averta 2 , Pasquale Minchella 7 , Manuela Colosimo 7 ,
Lucia Muraca 8 , Federico Longhini 9 , Antonio Ammendolia 4 , Francesco Andreozzi 2, * ,
Giovambattista De Sarro 1 , G&P Working Group † and Erika Cione 10
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Citation: Gallelli, L.; Mannino, G.C.;
Luciani, F.; de Sire, A.; Mancuso, E.;
Gangemi, P.; Cosco, L.; Monea, G.;
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Averta, C.; Minchella, P.; et al.
Vitamin D Serum Levels in Subjects
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Tested for SARS-CoV-2: What Are the
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Differences among Acute, Healed,
and Negative COVID-19 Patients?
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A Multicenter Real-Practice Study.
Nutrients 2021, 13, 3932. https://
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doi.org/10.3390/nu13113932
Academic Editors: Igor Sergeev and
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Department of Health Science, School of Medicine, University of Catanzaro,
Operative Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Mater Domini University Hospital, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy;
gallelli@unicz.it (L.G.); desarro@unicz.it (G.D.S.)
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy;
gaiamannino@gmail.com (G.C.M.); elettramancuso@gmail.com (E.M.); giuseppe.monea93@gmail.com (G.M.);
carolinaaverta90@gmail.com (C.A.)
Infectious Diseases Unit of Annunziata Hospital, 87100 Cosenza, Italy; filippoluciani@gmail.com
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences,
University of Catanzaro “Magna Graecia”, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; ammendolia@unicz.it
Operative Unit of Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Pugliese Ciaccio Hospital, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy;
pgangemi@aocz.it
Department of Infectious Disease, Pugliese Ciaccio Hospital, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy;
malattie.infettive@aocatanzaro.it
Department of Microbiology and Virology, Pugliese Ciaccio Hospital, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy;
minchellap@tin.it (P.M.); manuelacolosimo@hotmail.it (M.C.)
Department of General Medicine, ASP 7, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; luciamuraca@alice.it
Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Pugliese Ciaccio Hospital, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy;
flonghini@unicz.it
Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, Department of Excellence 2018–2022,
University of Calabria, 87036 Cosenza, Italy; erika.cione@unical.it
Correspondence: alessandro.desire@unicz.it (A.d.S.); andreozzi@unicz.it (F.A.);
Tel.: +39-0961-7128-19 (A.d.S.); +39-0961-36471-20 (F.A.)
A complete list of the centers and investigators in the G&P Working Group is provided in Appendix A.
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Maria Luz Fernandez
Received: 7 October 2021
Accepted: 1 November 2021
Published: 3 November 2021
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Abstract: Vitamin D might play a role in counteracting COVID-19, albeit strong evidence is still
lacking in the literature. The present multicenter real-practice study aimed to evaluate the..
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