REPERCUSSIONS OF VITAMIN D to INFECTION CAUSED BY NEW CORONAVIRUS: A SCOPING REVIEW

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Vitamin D, COVID-19, Benefits

Abstract

The pandemic caused by new coronavirus has generated an expressive health crisis that affects countries and populations in different ways. Regarding measures to mitigate the effects of this infection, the role of available potential preventive agents and their relationship with social, biological and health markers should be considered. This study is a scoping review with the objective of describing the evidence of the effects of vitamin D in the infection caused by the new coronavirus. Through the Periodical Portal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (Capes), the following electronic databases were searched: Web of Science, Medline, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), ScienceDirect and PubMed Central. The descriptors used in the search were: "COVID-19" and "VITAMIN-D" joined by the Bolean operator "and". Primary and complete articles published in 2020 in any language were included. The findings of the research involve: the association or not of vitamin D with the risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2; the link between risk factors and comorbidities and the prognosis of the disease; and the relationship between lower levels of vitamin D and increased severity of the pathology. Therefore, there is potential benefit from maintaining adequate blood levels of vitamin D and its prophylactic exogenous use for the mitigation of the damage caused by SARS-CoV-2. However, new studies with robust methodologies are needed to deepen the study of this topic and generate new evidence.

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Érico Gurgel Amorim, Doutorando em Ciências da Saúde pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Mestre em saúde coletiva. Bacharel em Medicina. Professor Assistente da Escola Multicampi de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Integrante do Observatório de Saúde Mental e do grupo Teoria Crítica das Organizações. É associado à Associação Brasileira de educação médica (ABEM), à Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinologia e Metabologia (SBEM) e à Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (ABRASCO). Defensor da saúde pública, da universidade pública e inclusiva e da pesquisa científica brasileira como via para o desenvolvimento do país.

Heron Alves Vale, Graduando em Medicina pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Ciências Morfofuncionais.

Ana Olivia Dantas, Graduanda em Medicina pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Ciências Morfofuncionais.

Ricardo Franklin de Freitas Mussi, Professor-pesquisador no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino, Linguagem e Sociedade da Universidade do Estado da Bahia

Doutor em Educação Física. Mestre em Saúde Coletiva. Integrante do Grupo de Estudos, Pesquisa e Extensão em Educação, Cultura e Saúde.

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2020-11-04

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Amorim, Érico G., Vale, H. A. ., Silva, M. de A. ., Dantas, A. O. ., & Mussi, R. F. de F. (2020). REPERCUSSIONS OF VITAMIN D to INFECTION CAUSED BY NEW CORONAVIRUS: A SCOPING REVIEW. Práticas E Cuidado: Revista De Saúde Coletiva, 1, e9936. Retrieved from https://revistas.uneb.br/index.php/saudecoletiva/article/view/9936

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