Vitamin D status and seroconversion for COVID-19 in UK healthcare workers. Issue 4 (8th April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Faniyi, Aduragbemi A.; Lugg, Sebastian T.; Faustini, Sian E.; Webster, Craig; Duffy, Joanne E.; Hewison, Martin; Shields, Adrian; Nightingale, Peter; Richter, Alex G.; Thickett, David R.
• Is Part Of: European respiratory journal. Volume 57:Issue 4(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-04-08
• Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Respiration -- Periodicals; 616.2
• DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04234-2020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0903-1936

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health emergency, resulting in over 50 million infections and over 1.2 million deaths as of mid-November 2020 [1]. Healthcare workers are at a high risk of COVID-19 with large numbers of deaths reported around Europe and the UK, particularly among staff in the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) demographic group [2]. COVID-19 has disproportionately affected BAME individuals even after accounting for age, sex, social deprivation and comorbidity [3]. NHS staff with vitamin D deficiency were more likely to have developed COVID-19, with staff from BAME ethnicity being the most vitamin D deficient https://bit.ly/2J3kVTc