Crabtree TSJ, Winnocour P, Darzy K; Phillips S, Sennik D, Rohilla A, Raghavan R, Evans A, Bickerton A, I Gallen, Yadigiri M, Ryder REJ on behalf of the ABCD Canagliflozin Audit Contributors

Zafar M, Randhawa R S, Hegner J, Alam S, Farooq M, Eldebri R, Barry L, Pun B, Shahbaz M, Makanjuola O A, Cuison F, Safarova D, Lawrence K, Elyasaky A, Nooredinvand H A, Periasamy M, Khanna A, Subba K, Adekunle B A, Ojofeitimi O, Morete Esteves A, Ciroi T M G, Moran S, O’Neill W, Taylor N, Muhammad T, Dashora U

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Yates P, Nazir-Salim K, Rowles Dr S

Pennine Acute Hospitals trust, Part of the Northern Care Alliance.

Williams HJ*; Kelshiker M*; Rendall A; Shah JS; Hui E.

Departments of Cardiology and Endocrinology, London North West University Healthcare *Contributed equally to this work

L. Wallett¹, P. Kempegowda^1,2, E. Melson^1,2, A. Johnson³, L. Thomas³, D. Zhou³, C. Holmes¹, A. Juszczak¹, M. Karamat¹, S. Ghosh¹, W. Hanif¹, P. Narendran^1,4, S. Bellary^1,5

Thu-ta P, O’Dowd C, Miller S, Pittam B, Harvey D, Hossain M, Srinivas-Shankar U

Department of Orthopaedic surgery, Department of Microbiology, Department of Diabetes & Endocrinology, Wirral University Teaching Hospital

N. Thomas, A. Hill, P. Tippett, T. McDonald, B. Knight, A. Carr, M. Weedon, R. Oram, A. Hattersley, A. Jones 

Level 3, Exeter University, Exeter, UK

Tee SA*, Devine K*, Potts A, Gibson E, Duffy C, Melville H, Panagiotou G, Bond Z, Ahmed S, Marchitelli G, Grixti L, Alderson N, Bajwa D, Barr A, Capstick R, Eid A, Hoy S, Li A, Mohammed O, Baker K, Little SA, Leech NJ. * Joint first authors. Corresponding author: suann.tee@nhs.net

Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused devastation across the globe and the virus seems to be spreading unabated. It has been demonstrated that countries that are most affected are the ones that are in colder climates mainly and it is thought that the population of these countries who are vitamin D deficient may be one of the reasons why the virus is spreading so rampantly.

Iain Squire¹, Faiez Zannad², Javed Butler³, Gerasimos Filippatos⁴, Stuart J. Pocock⁵, Waheed Jamal⁶, Janet Schnee⁷, Karen Kimura⁸, Cordula Zeller⁹, Martina Brueckmann⁶,10 Stefan D. Anker¹¹, Milton Packer¹², for the EMPEROR-Reduced Trial Committees and Investigators