Response to the letter to the editor: "The link between Vitamin D and COVID-19"

Davaasambuu Ganmaa¹, Rui Wang², Walter C Willett³, JoAnn E Manson⁴

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¹ Channing Division Network of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: gdavaasa@hsph.harvard.edu.
² Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 34074457
PMCID: PMC8163558
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106418

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Response to the letter to the editor: "The link between Vitamin D and COVID-19"

Davaasambuu Ganmaa et al. Contemp Clin Trials. 2021 Jun.

. 2021 Jun:105:106418.

doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106418. Epub 2021 May 29.

Authors

Davaasambuu Ganmaa¹, Rui Wang², Walter C Willett³, JoAnn E Manson⁴

Affiliations

¹ Channing Division Network of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: gdavaasa@hsph.harvard.edu.
² Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 34074457
PMCID: PMC8163558
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106418

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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The link between vitamin D and COVID-19.
Campos DMO, Silva ED Jr, Fulco UL, Oliveira JIN. Campos DMO, et al. Contemp Clin Trials. 2021 Jun;105:106395. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106395. Epub 2021 May 29. Contemp Clin Trials. 2021. PMID: 34074458 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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