Vitamin D Status in Adolescents during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study.
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serval:BIB_8E60F14B5B00
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Vitamin D Status in Adolescents during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study.
Journal
Nutrients
ISSN
2072-6643 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2072-6643
Publication state
Published
Issued date
26/04/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
13
Number
5
Pages
1467
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Comparative Study ; Journal Article
Publication Status: epublish
Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
Vitamin D has been claimed to be effective in the response to infections, including the respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is supposed that lockdown measures and fear of SARS-CoV-2 infection might reduce vitamin D levels through the modification of lifestyle. However, very few data exist on the association between lockdown measures and vitamin D status in humans. For this cross-sectional comparative study, adolescents (n = 298) aged 18 to 19 years were enrolled during the compulsory military fitness-for-duty evaluation between July and December 2020 in Southern Switzerland. Beyond anthropometric measurements, participants filled in a structured questionnaire about their lifestyle and a blood specimen was sampled for the determination of total 25-hydroxy-vitamin D. The obtained data were compared with those of 437 adolescents enrolled at the military fitness-for-duty evaluation during the same period of the year in the context of the CENERI study (2014-2016). The anthropometric measures were similar between the two study groups. The levels of vitamin D were also comparable (77 (64-91) vs. 74 (60-92) nmol/L, p = 0.50; median and interquartile range). A total of 38 (13%) and 43 (9.8%) subjects presented insufficient (<50 nmol/L) levels of vitamin D (p = 0.42) during the current pandemic and in the CENERI study, respectively. These data do not support the hypothesis that during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, late adolescents are at higher risk of vitamin insufficiency.
Keywords
Adolescent, Body Mass Index, COVID-19/blood, COVID-19/epidemiology, Communicable Disease Control/methods, Cross-Sectional Studies, Exercise, Female, Humans, Life Style, Male, Nutritional Status, Pandemics, SARS-CoV-2, Surveys and Questionnaires, Switzerland/epidemiology, Vitamin D/blood, Vitamin D Deficiency/blood, Vitamin D Deficiency/epidemiology, Young Adult, COVID19, adolescents, complications, diet, insufficiency, lockdown, pandemic, prevention, vitamins
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Web of science
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Yes
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08/08/2024 6:37