Covid-19 and vit-d: Disease mortality negatively correlates with sunlight exposure
Covid-19 and vit-d: Disease mortality negatively correlates with sunlight exposure
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DOI：
10.1016/j.sste.2020.100362
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发表时间：
2020-11-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Forget, Joachim
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作者：
Lansiaux, Edouard;Pebay, Philippe P.;Forget, Joachim
The novel COVID-19 disease is a contagious acute respiratory infectious disease whose causative agent has been demonstrated to be a new virus of the coronavirus family, SARS-CoV-2. Alike with other coronaviruses, some studies show a COVID-19 neurotropism, inducing de-myelination lesions as encountered in Guillain-Barresyndrome.In particular, an Italian report concluded that there is a significant vitamin D deficiency in COVID-19 infected patients.In the current study, we applied a Pearson correlation test to public health as well as weather data, in order to assess the linear relationship between COVID-19 mortality rate and the sunlight exposure. For instance in continental metropolitan France, average annual sunlight hours are significantly (for a p-value of 1.532 x 10(-32)) correlated to the COVID-19 mortality rate, with a Pearson coefficient of -0.636.This correlation hints at a protective effect of sunlight exposure against COVID-19 mortality. This paper is proposed to foster academic discussion and its hypotheses and conclusions need to be confirmed by further research. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
