Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology
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Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol · Apr 2019
ReviewVitamin D and childhood asthma: causation and contribution to disease activity.
To review the literature of the past 18 months (April 2017 through September, 2018) relating to vitamin D and childhood asthma. ⋯ Evidence continues to accumulate that vitamin D supplementation helps to prevent the development of asthma and recurrent wheeze in early life, and may also help in the management of asthma. The level(s) of circulating vitamin D that maximizes these effects remains to be identified.