{"id":122971,"date":"2020-07-17T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=122971"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:42:19","slug":"jabsom-selenium-covid19-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/17\/jabsom-selenium-covid19-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher COVID-19 cure rates linked to diets sufficient in selenium"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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JABSOM<\/abbr> researchers provide supporting evidence on the study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM<\/abbr>) researchers who study the micronutrient selenium were encouraged by a recent study out of China that looked at the positive association between selenium and reported cure rates of COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n

Lucia Seale<\/strong>, Daniel Torres<\/strong>, Marla Berry<\/strong> and Matthew Pitts<\/strong> with JABSOM<\/abbr>\u2019s Department of Cell and Molecular Biology<\/a> sent commentary published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/em><\/a> that endorsed the study conducted by J. Zhang and collaborators on “Association between regional selenium status and reported outcome of COVID-19 cases in China<\/a>.” The study analyzed data gathered from 17 cities in China, known to have populations with both the lowest and the highest selenium status in the world.<\/p>\n

Selenium is a trace element that is naturally present in many foods (fish, meat and cereals), and is available as a dietary supplement. It is nutritionally essential for humans, and is a constituent of more than two dozen selenoproteins that play critical roles in reproduction, thyroid hormone metabolism, DNA<\/abbr> synthesis, and protection from oxidative damage and infection.<\/p>\n

“This may provide novel insights into mechanisms leading to the severity of COVID-19<\/abbr> and gauge the demographic most likely to benefit from selenium supplementation and\/or treatment in the fight against COVID-19<\/abbr>,” said Associate Researcher Seale. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers at the John A. Burns School of Medicine studying selenium were encouraged by a recent study out of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[910,1411,1417,31,1363,158,9],"class_list":["post-122971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-cell-and-molecular-biology","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-research","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-manoa-research","tag-publication","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122971"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123006,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122971\/revisions\/123006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}