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ReviewThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2014

Asthma, allergy, and responses to methyl donor supplements and nutrients.

Sunita Sharma, Augusto Litonjua

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Review in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The Role of Vitamins in the Pathogenesis of Asthma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  11. The Role of Nutritional Factors in Asthma: Challenges and Opportunities for Epidemiological Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  17. Association of prenatal folate status with early childhood wheeze and atopic dermatitis.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2018
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  18. UrinaryOxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2018
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  19. Dietary intake is associated with respiratory health outcomes and DNA methylation in children with asthma.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sunita SharmaChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: sunita.sharma@channing.harvard.edu.
Augusto LitonjuaChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Harvard University · US

Funding

Randomized Trial: Maternal Vitamin D Supplementation to Prevent Childhood AsthmaU01HL091528 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LITONJUA, AUGUSTO A, WEISS, SCOTT T · 2009 to 2013
$10.0M
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL: VDAART CONTINUATION STUDY - DCC - LEADR01HL091528 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LITONJUA, AUGUSTO A, WEISS, SCOTT T · 2014 to 2018
$9.1M
Early Life DNA Methylation and Childhood Allergic DiseaseR01HL111108 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI DEMEO, DAWN L · 2013 to 2016
$3.0M
INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS AND THE FETAL ORIGINS OF IMPAIRED LUNG FUNCTIONK08HL096833 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SHARMA, SUNITA · 2010 to 2013
$547k
NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL096833NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL091528NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL111108NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL091528
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After a brief period of stabilization, recent data have shown that the prevalence of asthma and allergic diseases continues to increase. Atopic diseases are major public health problems resulting in significant disability and resource use globally. Although environmental factors influence the development of atopic disease, dietary changes might partially explain the high burden of atopic disease. Potential mechanisms through which diet is suspected to effect asthma and allergy susceptibility are through epigenetic changes, including DNA methylation. Dietary methyl donors are important in the one-carbon metabolic pathway that is essential for DNA methylation. Findings from both observational studies and interventional trials of dietary methyl donor supplementation on the development and treatment of asthma and allergy have produced mixed results. Although issues related to the differences in study design partially explain the heterogeneous results, 2 other issues have been largely overlooked in these studies. First, these nutrients affect one of many pathways and occur in many of the same foods. Second, it is now becoming clear that the human intestinal microbiome is involved in the metabolism and production of the B vitamins and other methyl donor nutrients. Future studies will need to account for both the interrelationships between these nutrients and the effects of the microbiome.

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Dietary SupplementsDNA MethylationFoodAsthmaHumansIntestinesMicrobiotaVitamin B ComplexVitamin B ComplexAllergyasthmabetainecholinefolatemethyl donormicrobiomevitamin B12vitamin B2vitamin B6

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PMID24360248
PMCPMC4004707
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