Artemio García-Escobar, Silvio Vera-Vera, Daniel Tébar-Márquez, Alfonso Jurado-Román, Santiago Jiménez-Valero, Guillermo Galeote, José Ángel Cabrera, Raul Moreno
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Abstract
There has been suggestion that vitamin D may play a role in protection against severe infection with COVID-19, defined as the need of intensive care unit admission. In this article a potential mechanism involving angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is proposed.