ReviewThe Lancet. Respiratory medicine2013
Diet and asthma: vitamins and methyl donors.
Review in The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Impact of Meal Dietary Inflammatory Index on Exercise-Induced Changes in Airway Inflammation in Adults with Asthma.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Nutrition as a Modifiable Factor in Optimizing Respiratory Health: Evidence from Pulmonary Function Tests.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The Role of Oxidative Stress in the Pathogenesis of Childhood Asthma: A Comprehensive Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Association of lung health and cardiovascular health (Life's Essential 8).Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- A Comprehensive Metagenome Study Identifies Distinct Biological Pathways in Asthma Patients: An In-Silico Approach.Biochemical genetics · 2024Article
- Association between adherence to a lifestyle behavior and the risk of asthma in overweight and obese adolescents.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Evaluation of Healthy Eating Index and Children's Diet Inflammatory Index according to asthma severity group.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- The Role of Vitamins in the Pathogenesis of Asthma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Folate - a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023.Food & nutrition research · 2023Article
- Obesity-related biomarkers underlie a shared genetic architecture between childhood body mass index and childhood asthma.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Transcriptomic and metabolomic associations with exposures to air pollutants among young adults with childhood asthma history.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2022Article
- Human matters in asthma: Considering the microbiome in pulmonary health.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Pediatric Obesity-Related Asthma: The Role of Nutrition and Nutrients in Prevention and Treatment.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Diet and asthma: Is the sum more important than the parts?The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2021Article
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- Prospects for Use of Single-Cell Sequencing to Assess DNA Methylation in Asthma.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2020Review
- Dietary Patterns, Asthma, and Lung Function in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2020Article
- Diet and Food Allergy as Risk Factors for Asthma in the Arabian Gulf Region: Current Evidence and Future Research Needs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Diet, Lung Function, and Asthma Exacerbations in Puerto Rican Children.Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology · 2017Article
- 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 · 2017Article
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Abstract
Diet changes can partly explain the high burden of asthma in industrialised nations. Findings from experimental studies have stimulated many observational studies of the association between vitamins (A, C, D, and E) or nutrients acting as methyl donors (folate, vitamin B12, and choline) and asthma. However, observational studies are susceptible to several sources of bias; well conducted randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard to establish whether diet has an effect on asthma. Evidence from observational studies and a few RCTs strongly justifies ongoing and future RCTs in three areas: vitamin D for the prevention or treatment of asthma, choline supplementation as adjuvant treatment for asthma, and vitamin E to prevent the detrimental effects of air pollution in patients with asthma. At present, insufficient evidence exists to recommend supplementation with any vitamin or nutrient acting as a methyl donor to prevent or treat asthma.
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