Severe vitamin D deficiency linked to 33% higher hospitalization risk for respiratory infections

Severe respiratory infections rank among top 20 causes of mortality globally for ages 50-74 and top 10 for those 75+, with hospitalization straining healthcare systems.

Across the long arc of human vulnerability to illness, a large UK study has added measurable weight to an old intuition: that the body's relationship with sunlight, mediated by vitamin D, shapes its capacity to resist the respiratory infections that claim lives and fill hospital wards each winter. Researchers from the Universities of Surrey, Reading, and Oxford found that among more than 36,000 participants, those with the most severe vitamin D deficiency faced a 33 percent greater chance of hospitalization for infections like pneumonia and bronchitis — a gradient that softened with every incr

Severe vitamin D deficiency linked to 33% higher hospitalization risk for respiratory infections

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