Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients

Post by lrpublic » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:12 AM UTC

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Here's a link to the paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v... This is interesting data. I want to see Vitamin D status included in a large population study like this because I've been following two smaller studies covering about a thousand cases total that shows Vitamin D deficiency has a risk ratio of 10 to 20 (more even than being age 80+ in the above study). The studies: [1] https://p…

> I want to see Vitamin D status included in a large population study like this Although vitamin D is not mentioned in this study, it does show that black people have a hazard ratio of about 2 compared to whites. In the UK black people would be more vitamin D deficient than white people. Now that I think about it, isn't the potential for vitamin D deficiency the reason there are white people in the first place?

Post by goblin89 » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:16 AM UTC

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As someone who relatively freshly started smoking 1.5 years ago, I find it insidious. After stopping for a day or two, I actually feel better as tension goes away and I sleep a lot. Shortly, however, I start randomly getting sneezes, runny nose, and slight ill-like feeling in my head. Part of what makes me start again is the desire to avoid spooking others with those flu-like symptoms in the middle of an epidemic, si…

This is a real effect. Smoking paralyses the cilia; about 4–6 days after cessation, the cilia become active again and start to bring up mucus from the lungs. The good news is that these symptoms are temporary. Public health communications on the benefits of cessation don’t usually mention this. I wonder if that’s a mistake. I would have thought it puts a lot of people off quitting, and maybe if they knew what was hap…

Post by russfink » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:22 AM UTC

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The old adage applies here: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

However, evidence of absence is unlikely to be found as the vast majority of researchers tend not to bother publishing papers with negative results. So if an idea seems like it should have been researched already, but no research papers are to be found, it may very well be because the evidence of absence simply hasn't been shared.

Post by irishcoffee » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:34 AM UTC

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A friend of mine had cancer and they had him taking D3 immediately. also I was out shopping recently and they seemed to sell many varieties of D3, but I didn't see any other D vitamins offered for sale. Is D deficiency really D3 deficiency? or have the other D vitamins sold out?

As a vegan, I learned that there's D2 (comes from plants) and D3 (comes from animals), and they are the same as far as I know. Not sure about using them for treatments.

Post by lazyasciiart » Sat, May 16, 2020, 11:39 AM UTC

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Maybe because it could cause you to go outside, increasing exposure to the sun.

Or cause sick people to avoid you. If I have a cold, no way I'm standing next to a smoker.