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ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2020

Vitamin D and Sex Differences in COVID-19.

Maria Teresa Pagano, Daniela Peruzzu, Anna Ruggieri, Elena Ortona, Maria Cristina Gagliardi

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Article in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Vitamin D Deficiency and Comorbidities as Risk Factors of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2022
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  4. Influence of Sex and 1,25α Dihydroxyvitamin DPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  12. Could SARS-CoV-2 infection affect male fertility and sexuality?APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Maria Teresa PaganoCenter for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.
Daniela PeruzzuCenter for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.
Anna RuggieriCenter for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.
Elena OrtonaCenter for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.
Maria Cristina GagliardiCenter for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleHumansItalyMalePandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Sex FactorsVitamin DVitamin D DeficiencyVitaminsVitamin DVitaminscoronavirus disease 2019estrogeninflammationsex/gender differencesvitamin D

Identifiers

PMID33101200
PMCPMC7554594

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