Modest effects of dietary supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from 445 850 users of the COVID-19 Symptom Study app

Accepted/In Press date: 4 March 2021

e-pub ahead of print date: 19 April 2021

Published date: 1 June 2021

Additional Information: Funding Information: Funding This work was supported by Zoe Global Limited. The Department of Twin Research receives grant support from the Wellcome Trust (212904/Z/18/Z) and the Medical Research Council (MRC)/British Heart Foundation Ancestry and Biological Informative Markers for Stratification of Hypertension (AIMHY; MR/M016560/1), European Union, Chronic Disease Research Foundation (CDRF), Zoe Global Ltd, NIH and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)-funded BioResource, Clinical Research Facility and Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King’s College London. PL is funded by the Chronic Disease Research Foundation; AMV is supported by the National Institute for Health Research Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. CHS is an Alzheimer’s Society Junior Fellowship AS-JF-17-011; SO is funded by the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering (WT203148/Z/16/Z), Wellcome Flagship Programme (WT213038/Z/18/Z). ATC is the Stuart and Suzanne Steele MGH Research Scholar and is a Team Leader for the Stand Up to Cancer Foundation. ATC, LHN, JAM and DAD are supported by the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR). CM is funded by the Chronic Disease Research Foundation and by the MRC Aim-Hy project grant. PCC is supported by the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. MSG is supported by the Wellcome Flagship Programme (WT213038/Z/18/Z). MFG and PWF receive support from the Swedish Research Council, Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (LUDC-IRC 15-0067). Competing interests TDS, AMV, ERL and SEB are consultants to Zoe Global Limited ('Zoe'). JW is an employee of Zoe. PCC has research funding from BASF AS and Bayer Consumer Care; is an advisor/consultant to BASF AS, DSM, Danone/ Nutricia, Cargill, Smartfish, Nutrileads, Bayer Consumer Care and Pfizer (now GSK) Consumer Healthcare and has received travel reimbursement/speaking fees from Danone, Fresenius Kabi, Pfizer (now GSK) Consumer Healthcare, Smartfish, Biogredia and the California Walnut Commission. ATC has received consulting fees from Bayer Pharma, Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim. Funding Information: running and supporting the app and service to all users worldwide. The Department of Twin Research is funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, European Union, Chronic Disease Research Foundation (CDRF), Zoe Global Ltd and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)-funded BioResource, Clinical Research Facility and Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King’s College London. CM is funded by the Chronic Disease Research Foundation and by the MRC Aim-Hy project grant. PL is funded by the CDRF, SO is funded by the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering (WT203148/Z/16/Z), Wellcome Flagship Programme (WT213038/ Z/18/Z), and PCC is supported by the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. We express our sincere thanks to all the participants of the COVID Symptom Study app including study volunteers enrolled in cohorts within the Coronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) consortium. We thank the staff of Zoe Global Limited, the Department of Twin Research at King’s College London, the Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Researchers and staff at Lund University in Sweden for their tireless work in contributing to the running of the study and data collection. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

Keywords: COVID-19, nutritional treatment

Local EPrints ID: 447697

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/447697

DOI: doi:10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000250

PURE UUID: ff71be8f-4a0c-41e3-8b71-918ded6979dc

ORCID for Philip Calder: orcid.org/0000-0002-6038-710X

Date deposited: 18 Mar 2021 17:46

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