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Correlations between level of vitamin D serum and disease severity COVID-19

Background Corona virus disease (COVID-19) Was a respiratory disease. Severity of the disease was related to inflammation process. SCAP scoring system can be used to asses COVID-19 severity. Asses the severity of the disease is an important thing to determine the management. Vitamin D is shown to have anti-inflammatory effect. Vitamin D can downregulate cytokines storm and also induce innate immune activity. Here we want to know about the correlation between level of vitamin D and disease severity of COVID-19.

Methods Cross sectional study was observed 68 patient COVID-19 in Prof. Dr. I. G. N. G Ngoerah Denpasar hospital. They were asses with SCAP scoring system dan measured their   vitamin D level at the same time. The correlation between two variable was analyze by Spearman correlation.

Results Among those 68 Sample, the median age of the sample is 64 years old, and 52.9 % of them are male. There is correlation between level of vitamin D and severity of COVID-19, the coefficient correlation was -0.47 with p<0.001.

Conclusions There is correlation between level of vitamin D and severity of COVID-19.