Laurent Hi, William B Grant, Yingxia Liu, Peng D Huang, Denggao Peng, Hua Huang, Zhichao Liu, Yanzhang Gao
Conclusions: Children with vitamin D insu ciency might have poorer clinical outcomes in Omicron subvariant BA. infection, especially in older pediatric patients. Further studies are needed to assess e ectiveness of supplements in reducing the same.
Ethics statement This investigation involving human participants were reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of The Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen (Approval Number: 2022-012). Written informed consent for participation was not provided by the participants' legal guardians/next of kin because: Written informed consent from patients participating in this study was waived in accordance with the national legislation and the institutional requirements.
Author contributions DP: methodology, investigation, formal analysis, data curation, writing the original draft, and visualization. HH and ZL: investigation, formal analysis, and data curation. YL: conceptualization, investigation, review and editing, and supervision. ZL, YG, and HH: worked on conceptualization, formal analysis, investigation, and data curation. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript version to be submitted.
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