https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/2f9a7135f3d7f8aa4e0fe13096d716fc.pdf 4b41caca6292c0e1422d8a7b12172eeb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations Are Lower in Patients with Positive PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alessandra Manca, Renzo Lucchini, Jessica Cusato, Antonio D’Avolio, Amedeo De Nicolò, Marco Cantù, Valeria Avataneo, Franco Keller Description An account of the resource Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with a clinical outcome ranging from mild to severe, including death. To date, it is unclear why some patients develop severe symptoms. Many authors have suggested the involvement of vitamin D in reducing the risk of infections; thus, we retrospectively investigated the 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations in plasma obtained from a cohort of patients from Switzerland. In this cohort, significantly lower 25(OH)D levels (p = 0.004) were found in PCR-positive for SARS-CoV-2 (median value 11.1 ng/mL) patients compared with negative patients (24.6 ng/mL); this was also confirmed by stratifying patients according to age >70 years. On the basis of this preliminary observation, vitamin D supplementation might be a useful measure to reduce the risk of infection. Randomized controlled trials and large population studies should be conducted to evaluate these recommendations and to confirm our preliminary observation. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource vitamin D, coronavirus, Deficiency, concentrations, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DOI: 10.3390/nu12051359 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Nutrients Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available MDPI AG Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Nutrition. Foods and food supply