Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast.

I'm your host, Iber Cummins.

Hello all, it's 27th of April and I'm going to give you another quick update on the current challenging situation.

And this addresses a common topic out there, vitamin D and its interaction with your exposure or your

the severity you may experience with this viral problem. So we're going to look at a few

slides here and the first is around a new study that came out from the Philippines, from a

doctor there, radiologist. And it's a simple study and it just looks at the severity of these viral

outcomes versus the vitamin D historical status of the people in question. So it's only a couple

of hundred people. You can see the title here. And it did look at their prior vitamin D levels.

So it's not just post-admittance when they had the virus.

It looked at historical and post-admittance.

So that's kind of controlled for.

So essentially here's the result.

And we see that as an association, it's very powerful.

So it is associational data retrospective, but we see that mild cases overwhelmingly

were above 30 nanogram per mill, which is sufficiency for vitamin D, pretty much accepted.

And then as you get to ordinary cases and severe, particularly, and critical indeed,

you see that these cases are dominated by an

association with insufficient or deficient D levels so it's quite a strong signal

albeit associational now if we look here Elizabeth Brown actually replotted the

data for us thank you Elizabeth And you can see again,

the mild outcomes average 30 something nanograms of vitamin D and increasing severity of outcome

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