The authors concluded, "A statistically significant association between lower mean serum vitamin D levels in the Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) group compared with that of the control group. Therefore, low serum vitamin D levels may be one of the risk factors for Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)."

A government spokesperson said that other than Remdesivir, the government was keeping a close watch over availability of eight other medicines, prescribed for Covid patients. These include Ivermectin , Paracetamol , Doxycycline, Azithromycin, Vitamin C , Zinc tables, Vitamin B Complex and Vitamin D3. These medicines are part of the medicine protocol followed even by patients in home isolation. 

Have you recently started gaining weight? Then deficiency of Vitamin D can be one of the reasons. The deficiency can disrupt the metabolic balance between growth and fat accumulation, according to a study.

Nutrify India has highlighted the importance of Vitamin D and the varied perspective the all-essential vitamin has on the human body, its organs and their functions.

Mothers’ vitamin D levels during pregnancy are associated with their children’s IQ, suggesting that higher vitamin D levels in pregnancy may lead to greater childhood IQ scores.