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Vitamin D and Bronchial Asthma: An Overview of Data From the Past 5 Years.

Sannette C. Hall, +1 more
- 01 May 2017 - 
- Vol. 39, Iss: 5, pp 917-929
TLDR
Despite the conflicting data obtained from clinical trials, vitamin D deficiency may influence the inflammatory response in the airways and further studies are needed to determine the exact mechanisms by which vitamin D supplementation may induce antiinflammatory effects.
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This article is published in Clinical Therapeutics.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 78 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: vitamin D deficiency & Vitamin D and neurology.

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Modulation of inflammatory and immune responses by vitamin D

TL;DR: Although knowledge of calcitriol as modulator of immune and inflammatory reactions has dramatically increased in the past decades, further in vivo and clinical studies are needed to confirm the potential benefits of VitD in the control of immune or inflammatory conditions.
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Asthma epidemiology and risk factors

TL;DR: Recent trends in the prevalence of asthma and recent studies that investigate risk factors of asthma are reviewed.
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Extra-Skeletal Effects of Vitamin D

TL;DR: This review examines available evidence to date for the extra-skeletal effects of vitamin D deficiency, with a focus on randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses.
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Genetics and Gene-Environment Interactions in Childhood and Adult Onset Asthma.

TL;DR: Time of asthma onset is considered, since identified gene-environment interactions seldom replicate for childhood and adult asthma, which suggests that asthma susceptibility to environmental exposures may biologically differ from early life to adulthood as a result of different pathways and mechanisms of the disease.
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Association between vitamin D status and asthma control: A meta-analysis of randomized trials

TL;DR: Vitamin D supplementation reduced the rate of asthma exacerbation, especially in patients with vitamin D insufficiency, and had a positive effect on pulmonary function in Patients with air limitation and vitamin D Insufficiency.
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Vitamin D insufficiency

TL;DR: This work selected studies with the strongest level of evidence for clinical decision making related to vitamin D and health outcomes from the personal libraries of the vitamin D literature and from a search of the PubMed database using the term vitamin D in combination with the following terms related to the potential nonskeletal benefits of vitamin D: mortality, cardiovascular, diabetes mellitus, cancer, multiple sclerosis, allergy, asthma, infection, depression, psychiatric, and pain.
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Role of viral respiratory infections in asthma and asthma exacerbations

TL;DR: There is evidence that deficiencies in antiviral activity and the integrity of the airway epithelial barrier could make individuals with asthma more likely to have severe viral respiratory infections of the lower airway, and thus increase the risk of exacerbation.
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Effect of vitamin D3 on asthma treatment failures in adults with symptomatic asthma and lower vitamin D levels: the VIDA randomized clinical trial.

TL;DR: Vitamin D3 did not reduce the rate of first treatment failure or exacerbation in adults with persistent asthma and vitamin D insufficiency, and findings do not support a strategy of therapeutic vitamin D3 supplementation in patients with symptomatic asthma.
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