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cord-313267-dc8z4jzo	Daneshkhah, Ali	The Role of Vitamin D in Suppressing Cytokine Storm in COVID-19 Patients and Associated Mortality	2020-04-10		.txt	text/plain	4998	264	56	The substantially higher age-specific CFR and the age-specific ratio of confirmed cases in Italy and Spain (countries with low mean 25OHD level) suggest a potential link between severe Vit D deficiency and severe COVID-19, which can lead to a higher CFR. Our analysis of the published data on the status of Vit D and CRP levels (in the US) and laboratory data (CRP levels) reported from 792 patients in China suggests that a proper supplementation of Vit D across populations may reduce the number of severe COVID-19 cases by up to 15 percentage points by lowering the risk factors related to cytokine storm. This could be a reason for the notably higher ratio of confirmed elderly patients with COVID-19 in Italy and Spain compared to other countries, since the age distribution of the countries (shown in Figure 4 (b)) cannot fully explain the reported numbers.	./cache/cord-313267-dc8z4jzo.txt	./txt/cord-313267-dc8z4jzo.txt