3/n Basically, the authors took a sample of people who'd been hospitalized with COVID-19, and split them up into 2 groups - normal vs low vitamin D (or, more technically, "sufficient" vs "insufficient")
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14/n The results show a vague correlation between vit D and some outcomes, with a smattering of statistical significance if you run the analyses in certain ways Not much that you can take away from that, I think
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15/n If nothing else, the small sample size makes it hard to conclude anything from these results other than "we need BETTER research"
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"Meaningless" is a word we rarely use to describe data. We rarely make data valuable with such labeling. We should simply see it in context with other findings, or perhaps the Castillo RCT.
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Was there any attempt to control for the fact that low serum vitamin D is associated with obesity and with being darker skinned, both comorbidities in COVID?
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