Editorial: low population mortality from COVID-19 in countries south of latitude 35 degrees North supports vitamin D as a factor determining severity - PubMed (original) (raw)

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. 2020 Jun;51(12):1434-1437.

doi: 10.1111/apt.15777. Epub 2020 Apr 28.

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Editorial: low population mortality from COVID-19 in countries south of latitude 35 degrees North supports vitamin D as a factor determining severity

Jonathan M Rhodes et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2020 Jun.

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Correlation between mortality from COVID‐19 per million by country and latitude. All countries with >150 cases included. Data are from

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

3 accessed 15th April 2020. Latitude is for capital city. It can be seen that mortality is relatively low at latitudes less than 35 degrees North, the point below which adequate sunlight is likely to have been received to maintain vitamin D levels during the winter. Correlation between mortality and latitude r = 0.53, P < 0.0001 by Spearman's rank correlation

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