Relationship Between Vitamin D Levels with In-Hospital Complications and Morphofunctional Recovery in a Cohort of Patients After Severe COVID-19 Across Different Obesity Phenotypes
Víctor J Simón-Frapolli, Ángel López-Montalbán, Isabel M Vegas-Aguilar, Marta Generoso-Piñar, Rocío Fernández-Jiménez, Isabel M Cornejo-Pareja, Ana M Sánchez-García, Pilar Martínez-López, Pilar Nuevo-Ortega, Carmen Reina-Artacho, María A Estecha-Foncea, Adela M Gómez-González, María Belén González-Jiménez, Elma Avanesi-Molina, Francisco J Tinahones-Madueño, José Manuel García-Almeida
Nutrients, doi:10.3390/nu17010110
Background and objectives: the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the necessity of understanding the factors influencing susceptibility and disease severity, as well as a better recovery of functional status, especially in postcritical patients. evidence regarding the efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in reducing the severity of COVID-19 is still insufficient due to the lack of primary robust trial-based data and heterogeneous study designs. the principal aims of our study were to determine the impact of vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency on complications during intensive care unit (icu) stay, as well as its role in muscle mass and strength improvement as well as morphofunctional recovery during a multispecialty 6-month follow-up program based on adapted nutritional support and specific physical rehabilitation. as a secondary objective, we compared the association mentioned above between patients with sarcopenic obesity and non-sarcopenic obesity. methods: this prospective observational study included 94 outpatients postcritical COVID-19. two weeks after hospital discharge, patients were divided into sufficient (≥30 ng/mL), insufficient (20.01-29.99 ng/mL), or deficient (≤20 ng/mL) vitamin D levels. the differences in inhospital complications and morphofunctional parameters including phase angle (PhA), body cell mass (BCM), handgrip strength (HGS), timed get-up-and-go (UAG), 6 min walk test (6MWT), and proinflammatory biochemical variables were analyzed. Incremental (∆) changes in these parameters were also analyzed at the end of follow-up according to vitamin D levels and the presence vs. absence of sarcopenic obesity. A multivariate linear regression analysis was performed to detect possible confounding factors in the impact analysis of vitamin D changes on functional recovery in patients with obesity. Results: A total of 36.2% of patients exhibited vitamin D deficiency, 29.8% vitamin D insufficiency,
to maintain these benefits. Furthermore, mechanistic studies examining the underlying processes through which vitamin D influences inflammation, muscle mass, and strength could provide deeper insights into how this micronutrient contributes to recovery in patients after critical COVID-19.
Conclusions Vitamin D level deficiency was associated with more complications and requiring aggressive therapies during ICU admission and with the improvement in clinical and morphofunctional outcomes in patients postcritical COVID-19, particularly those with sarcopenic obesity, partly due to a higher degree of inflammation as a result of a longer hospital stay. Therefore, it would be appropriate to measure vitamin D levels and to treat for them, if necessary, during the recovery from post-ICU syndrome after severe COVID-19 disease. While our findings are partly consistent with the existing literature, addressing limitations through larger, controlled studies and prolonged monitoring could yield more definitive insights.
Supplementary Materials: The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https: //www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/nu17010110/s1 . Table S1 . Changes (∆) in morphofunctional parameters at six months. Table S2 . Morphofunctional parameters at 6 months, according to vitamin D levels. Informed Consent Statement: Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in this study.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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