ea0070oc6.6 | Hot Topics (including COVID-19 | ECE2020
Tee Su
, Panagiotou Grigorios
, Ihsan Yasir
, Athar Waseem
, Marchitelli Gabriella
, Kelly Donna
, Boot Christopher S
, Stock Nadia
, Macfarlane James
, Martineau Adrian
, Burns Graham
, Quinton Richard
Background: The pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is associated with higher fatality in respect of male sex, advancing age, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, climatic factors and, in the UK and North America, with darker-skinned ethnicities; in all of which circumstances vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is more common. 25(OH)D levels reach their nadir at the end of winter and have been associated wit...