The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) highlighted recent findings from ITM-UChicago researcher David Meltzer, MD, PhD, that linked vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 risk.

Meltzer, the Fanny L. Pritzker Professor of Medicine, and his team looked at 4,638 people tested for COVID-19 and found that those with the lowest levels of vitamin D were 53% more likely to test positive for the virus. They also discovered that African-Americans with low levels are significantly more at risk than White people. They published their findings in JAMA Network Open.

Meltzer’s team is now conducting a health research study to see what effect low, medium and high doses of vitamin D have on COVID-19 risk. Click here to participate in the research!