Population vitamin D status might be related to COVID-19 mortality but not with infection rate in Africa: evidence from ecological analysis.

Pan Afr Med J · 2022 · PMC9187979 · PMID 35734324

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a positive trendno p-value reported

But the scatter plots showed a positive trend between COVID-19 mortality and vitamin D deficiency ( Figure 1 ).

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a negative trendno p-value reported

Conversely, the scatter plots between mean 25(OH) D concentration and COVID-19 mortality showed a negative trend ( Figure 2 ).

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