4/n They found that those with low vit D had a higher risk of some adverse outcomes, in particular that people >40 years with low vit D died more often than people >40 years with normal vit Dpic.twitter.com/Fb7NIPkpBd
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4/n They found that those with low vit D had a higher risk of some adverse outcomes, in particular that people >40 years with low vit D died more often than people >40 years with normal vit Dpic.twitter.com/Fb7NIPkpBd
5/n Sounds good right? Well, some issues Firstly, sample size: it was VERY SMALLpic.twitter.com/kq4XeuicBv
6/n The study used a dataset with 611 patients, but only 235 of them had information on their vitamin D status, so the final sample for the study was only 235pic.twitter.com/I4R7BRIpyt
7/n For that main, headline finding - that vit D reduces the risk of death - the authors were looking at a subset of this number (about 150 people) That's not a lot!
8/n It's also very odd when you actually look at the results, because the findings seem...wildly unimpressive This graph, for example, comparing vit D levels with risk of death. It's about as null a finding as you can get at first glancepic.twitter.com/fL7Ap83XgU
9/n If we look just at the patients who the authors found a significant relationship for - those over 40 - you can kind of see a relationship but it's VERY slimpic.twitter.com/pOAWPvWpex
10/n And when you look at all of the other outcomes the authors analyzed, a similar pattern emerges Low vit D increased the risk of hypoxia, but not shortness of breath. It DECREASED (not significantly) the risk of chest painpic.twitter.com/ZTeL7a5tGC
11/n You could write this study up as demonstrating that there was no correlation between vit D and most COVID-19 outcomes, and therefore we still don't know if it does anything for the disease
12/n Instead, the authors use the pretty tenuous observational link between low vit D in people over 40 and death to posit that supplementation should be used for all patients which isn't really supported by their resultspic.twitter.com/y5tkjFnXOZ
13/n While I could go into the results a bit more - the statistical analysis is a little bit meaningless, the confounding factors not really even considered - but honestly there's not really much point I think
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
15/n If nothing else, the small sample size makes it hard to conclude anything from these results other than "we need BETTER research"
You're being too generous. It's a shite study that offers nothing.
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