{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,14]],"date-time":"2025-05-14T12:33:13Z","timestamp":1747225993572,"version":"3.40.5"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Medical Association","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Pak Med Assoc"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: To explore the possible relationship between vitamin D and coronavirus disease-2019 in an urban population known to have relatively low vitamin D levels.\nMethod: The retrospective study was conducted in Bursa, Turkey, and comprised data of 30 family health centers from March 1 to December 15, 2020, related to diagnosed inpatients of coronovairus disease-2019. The diagnosis was based on polymerase chain reaction test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 infection. Vitamin D levels of these patients were obtained from previous records and compared with those without polymerase chain reaction positivity. Vitamin D levels of positive patients who survived were compared with those who died of coronavirus disease-2019. Data was analysed using SPSS 21.\nResult: Of the 2,105 patients whose data was retrived, 212(10%) were positive for coronavirus disease-2019, while 1,893(90%) were negative. Among the positive patients, 89(42%) were men and 123(58%) were women. The overall median age was 45 years (Q1-Q3(Q1: first quartile, Q3: third quartile): 35-56 years). Vitamin D level was not significantly different between the positive and negative patients (p&gt;0.05). Among the positive patients, 2(0.9%) patients did not have new admissions to the designated centers and their data was excluded, 206(97.2%) survived and 4(1.9%) died. There was no significant difference in vitamin D levels between those who survived and those who died (p&gt;0.05).\nConclusion: There was no significant relationship found between vitamin D levels and coronavirus disease-2019 infection and related deaths.\nKey Words: COVID-19, PCR positivity, SARS-CoV-2 infection, Vitamin D.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.47391\/jpma.4593","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,11]],"date-time":"2022-03-11T16:17:58Z","timestamp":1647015478000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Does vitamin D level have an effect on COVID-19 positivity and COVID-19 related mortality? A retrospective study"],"prefix":"10.47391","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3291-5187","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Olgun","family":"Goktas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2382-290X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ilker","family":"Ercan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"family":"Canan Ersoy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"family":"Arda Uzunoglu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"family":"Fatma Ezgi Can","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"26547","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,11]]},"container-title":["Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,15]],"date-time":"2022-03-15T16:22:42Z","timestamp":1647361362000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/ojs.jpma.org.pk\/index.php\/public_html\/article\/view\/4593"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,11]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.47391\/jpma.4593","relation":{},"ISSN":["0030-9982"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0030-9982"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,11]]}}}