{"id":5418,"date":"2020-08-14T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2024-03-13T08:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T08:28:50","slug":"%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87-vitamin-d-for-covid-19-a-case-to-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87-vitamin-d-for-covid-19-a-case-to-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D for COVID-19 : a case to answer ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CC5AE8F5-C8E3-4965-B8BC-F942152A5292-300x169-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><br \/>\n\u985e\u578b: \u9023\u7d50<br \/>\n\u4f5c\u8005: Adrian R Martineau &#038; Nita G Forouhi<br \/>\n\u51fa\u8655: The Lancet, Diabetes &#038; Endocrinology<br \/>\n\u9023\u7d50: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landia\/article\/PIIS2213-8587(20)30268-0\/fulltext\">https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landia\/article\/PIIS2213-8587(20)30268-0\/fulltext<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in a potential role for vitamin D in the prevention or treatment of acute respiratory infections dates back to the 1930s, when cod liver oil was investigated as a means to reduce industrial absenteeism due to the common cold. Meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials conducted from 2007\u201320 reveal protective effects of vitamin D against acute respiratory infections, albeit these effects were of modest size and with substantial heterogeneity.1 The striking overlap between risk factors for severe COVID-19 and vitamin D deficiency, including obesity, older age, and Black or Asian ethnic origin, has led some researchers to hypothesise that vitamin D supplementation could hold promise as a preventive or therapeutic agent for COVID-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-and-western-therapeutic-pharmacological-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5419,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}