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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2014

Vitamin D and asthma-life after VIDA?

John M Brehm

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Genetic polymorphisms in vitamin D pathway influence 25(OH)D levels and are associated with atopy and asthma.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2020
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  6. Vitamin D and Asthma: Association, Causality, or Intervention?Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

John M BrehmChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15224, USA, john.brehm@chp.edu.

Funding

Vitamin D, genomics, and asthma morbidity in Puerto Rican childrenK08HL111201 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BREHM, JOHN M · 2013 to 2015
$378k
NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL111201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vitamin D hypothesis postulates that lower vitamin D levels are causally associated with increased asthma risk and asthma severity. Multiple epidemiological studies have shown an inverse relationship between circulating vitamin D levels (in the form of 25-hydroxy vitamin D) and asthma severity and control and lung function. However, in the recently published vitamin D and asthma (VIDA) study, vitamin D supplementation failed to show an improvement in asthma control in adults. This article reviews the current epidemiological and trial evidence for vitamin D and asthma and explores some of the possible alternative explanations for previous findings (including "reverse causation" and the importance of studying children and adults). We also address some of the unique challenges of conducting vitamin D trials and potential ways to address them. Finally, I will argue for further clinical trials of vitamin D in asthma, especially in children, using knowledge gained from the VIDA trial.

Indexed as

AdultAsthmaChildDietary SupplementsHumansVitamin DVitamin D DeficiencyVitamins25-hydroxyvitamin DVitamin DVitamins

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PMID25086579
PMCPMC4148823

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