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ArticleThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2015

Association between vitamin D levels and allergy-related outcomes vary by race and other factors.

Ganesa Wegienka, Suzanne Havstad, Edward M Zoratti, Haejin Kim, Dennis R Ownby, Christine Cole Johnson

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Article in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02889081 (Maternal Key Nutritional Factors and Offspring's Atopic Dermatitis), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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NCT02889081 completednot on this mapstarted 2016, after this paper: background citation

Maternal Key Nutritional Factors and Offspring's Atopic Dermatitis

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorChildren's Hospital of Fudan UniversityRan2016 to 2018Enrolled487ConditionsAtopic DermatitisArmsmaternal biological folate level, maternal biological Vitamin D level
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Neonatal vitamin D status and asthma risk after age 5 years: A Danish population-based cohort study.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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  5. Vitamin D and allergic diseases.Frontiers in immunology · 2024
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  11. Prenatal vitamin D levels and child wheeze and asthma.The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians · 2021
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  14. Impact of parental asthma, prenatal maternal asthma control, and vitamin D status on risk of asthma and recurrent wheeze in 3-year-old children.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2019
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  15. The association of maternal prenatal vitamin D levels and child current wheeze.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2018
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  18. Prenatal exposures and the development of childhood wheezing illnesses.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ganesa WegienkaDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich. Electronic address: gwegien1@hfhs.org.
Suzanne HavstadDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Edward M ZorattiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Haejin KimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Dennis R OwnbyDepartment of Pediatrics, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Ga.
Christine Cole JohnsonDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Funding

The Effect of Dog-Keeping and the Intestinal Microbiota on Immune DevelopmentP01AI089473 · NIAID · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI OWNBY, DENNIS R · 2012 to 2024
$25.7M
Etiology of Pediatric AtopyR01AI051598 · NIAID · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI ZORATTI, EDWARD M · 2004 to 2008
$3.1M
Early Environmental Hygiene and Pediatric AtopyR01AI050681 · NIAID · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI JOHNSON, CHRISTINE C · 2002 to 2006
$2.9M
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ALLERGIC DISEASE ENDOTYPESR01AI110450 · NIAID · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI WEGIENKA, GANESA REBECCA · 2015 to 2019
$1.7M
EARLY LIFE VITAMIN D, RACIAL DISPARITIES, AND WHEEZINGR01HL113010 · NHLBI · HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM · PI WEGIENKA, GANESA REBECCA · 2012 to 2014
$1.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL113010NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL113010NIAID NIH HHS AI051598NIAID NIH HHS AI089473NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI089473NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050681NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI051598NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI110450
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAllergy-related studies that include biological measurements of vitamin D preceding well-measured outcomes are needed.

objectiveWe sought to examine the associations between early-life vitamin D levels and the development of allergy-related outcomes in the racially diverse Wayne County Health, Environment, Allergy, and Asthma Longitudinal Study birth cohort.

methods25-Hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels were measured in stored blood samples from pregnancy, cord blood, and age 2 years. Logistic regression models were used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) with 95% CIs for a 5 ng/mL increase in 25(OH)D levels for the following outcomes at age 2 years: eczema, skin prick tests (SPTs), increased allergen-specific IgE level (≥ 0.35 IU/mL), and doctor's diagnosis of asthma (3-6 years).

resultsPrenatal 25(OH)D levels were inversely associated with eczema (OR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.75-0.96). The association was stronger in white children (white children: OR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.57-1.09; black children: OR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.82-1.12), although this was not statistically significant. Cord blood 25(OH)D levels were inversely associated with having 1 or more positive SPT responses and aeroallergen sensitization. Both associations were statistically significant in white children (positive SPT response: OR, 0.50; 95% CI, 0.32-0.80; ≥ 1 aeroallergen sensitization: OR, 0.50; 95% CI, 0.28-0.92) in contrast with black children (positive SPT response: OR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.68-1.14; ≥ 1 aeroallergen sensitization: OR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.65-1.11). 25(OH)D levels measured concurrently with outcome assessment were inversely associated with aeroallergen sensitization (OR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.66-0.96) only among black children (white children: OR, 1.21; 95% CI, 0.87-1.69).

conclusionsPrenatal and cord blood 25(OH)D levels were associated with some allergy-related outcomes, with a general pattern indicating that children with higher 25(OH)D levels tend to have fewer allergy-related outcomes.

Indexed as

Racial GroupsChild, PreschoolCohort StudiesEczemaFemaleFetal BloodHumansHypersensitivityImmunizationImmunoglobulin EMalePregnancyRisk FactorsVitamin DImmunoglobulin EVitamin DallergyasthmaeczemaIgEracial differencesVitamin D

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PMCPMC4640935

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