Comment on Sobczyk, M.K.; Gaunt, T.R. The Effect of Circulating Zinc, Selenium, Copper and Vitamin K1 on COVID-19 Outcomes: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Nutrients 2022, 14, 233

Rob Janssen; Cees Vermeer; Jona Walk; Allan Linneberg

doi:10.3390/nu14051112

Comment on Sobczyk, M.K.; Gaunt, T.R. The Effect of Circulating Zinc, Selenium, Copper and Vitamin K₁ on COVID-19 Outcomes: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Nutrients 2022, 14, 233

Nutrients. 2022 Mar 7;14(5):1112. doi: 10.3390/nu14051112.

Authors

Rob Janssen¹, Cees Vermeer², Jona Walk³, Allan Linneberg^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, 6532 SZ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
² Cardiovascular Research Institute CARIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, 6532 SZ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁴ Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, DK-2000 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Abstract

Sobczyk and Gaunt genetically predicted circulating zinc, selenium, copper, and vitamin K₁ levels-instead of directly measuring nutrients in blood-and hypothesized that these levels would associate with SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity [...].

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Copper
Humans
Mendelian Randomization Analysis
Nutrients
SARS-CoV-2
Selenium*
Vitamin K 1
Zinc

Substances

Copper
Vitamin K 1
Selenium
Zinc