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ArticleRMD open2020

Evidences for a protective role of vitamin D in COVID-19.

Maurizio Cutolo, Sabrina Paolino, Vanessa Smith

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Article in RMD open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. 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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  11. Involvement of epigenetics in affecting host immunity during SARS-CoV-2 infection.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2023
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  20. Co-administration of vitamin D3 andAnnals of microbiology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Maurizio CutoloLaboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Division of Rheumatology, University of Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy mcutolo@unige.it.ORCID 0000-0002-5396-0932
Sabrina PaolinoLaboratory of Experimental Rheumatology and Division of Rheumatology, University of Genoa, Genova, Liguria, Italy.
Vanessa SmithDepartment of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Dietary SupplementsHumansVitamin DVitamin D DeficiencyVitamin DCOVID-19cytokinesglucocorticoidsinflammationpulmonary fibrosis

Identifiers

PMID33372031
PMCPMC7771215

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