About the Authors

Cédric Annweiler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Cedric.Annweiler@chu-angers.fr

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Memory Clinic, Research Centre on Autonomy and Longevity, University Hospital, Angers, France; UNIV Angers, UPRES EA 4638, University of Angers, Angers, France

Mélinda Beaudenon

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Memory Clinic, Research Centre on Autonomy and Longevity, University Hospital, Angers, France; UNIV Angers, UPRES EA 4638, University of Angers, Angers, France

Jennifer Gautier

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Memory Clinic, Research Centre on Autonomy and Longevity, University Hospital, Angers, France; UNIV Angers, UPRES EA 4638, University of Angers, Angers, France

Justine Gonsard

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Delegation for Clinical Research and Innovation, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France

Sophie Boucher

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of ENT Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital, Angers, France; MitoLab Team Mitochondrial Medecine Research Centre, MitoVasc Intitute, UNIV Angers, CNRS UMR6015, INSERM U1083, University of Angers, Angers, France

Guillaume Chapelet

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine and Memory Clinic, Research Centre, University Hospital, Nantes, France; Inserm UMR1235, Nantes Université, Nantes, France

Astrid Darsonval

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France

Bertrand Fougère

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Geriatric Medicine, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France; Education, Ethics, Health (EA 7505), Tours University, Tours, France

Olivier Guérin

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université Côte d’Azur, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Service de Médecine Gériatrique et Thérapeutique, Nice, France; Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS UMR 7284/INSERM U108, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging Nice (IRCAN), Faculté de Médecine, Nice, France

Marjorie Houvet

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, General Hospital, Saumur, France

Pierre Ménager

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, General Hospital, Le Mans, France

Claire Roubaud-Baudron

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pôle de Gérontologie Clinique, CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; INSERM 1053, Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Achille Tchalla

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unité de Recherche Clinique et d’Innovation (URCI) de Gérontologie, Pôle HU Gérontologie Clinique, CHU de Limoges, France; Université de Limoges, IFR GEIST, Laboratoire UR Vie-Santé (Aging and Digital health Lab) Faculté de Medicine de Limoges, Limoges, France

Jean-Claude Souberbielle

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Service des Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, Paris, France

Jérémie Riou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Delegation for Clinical Research and Innovation, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France

Elsa Parot-Schinkel

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Delegation for Clinical Research and Innovation, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France

Thomas Célarier

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Gerontology, University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France; Chaire Santé des Ainés, University of Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France

on behalf of the COVIT-TRIAL study group

Membership of the COVIT-TRIAL study group is provided in S1 Supplemental Appendix.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CA occasionally serves as a consultant for Mylan company. The Mylan company supplied the vitamin D3 supplement used in the study. All other authors declare they do not have any financial and personal conflicts of interest with this manuscript (MB, JGa, JGo, SB, GC, AD, BF, OG, MH, PM, CRB, AT, JCS, JR, EPS, TC).