Vitamin D for COVID-19: a case to answer?

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Population Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AB, UK. Electronic address: a.martineau@qmul.ac.uk.
² MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK.

Review

Adrian R Martineau et al. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;8(9):735-736.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30268-0. Epub 2020 Aug 3.

¹ Institute for Population Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AB, UK. Electronic address: a.martineau@qmul.ac.uk.
² MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK.

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