There is increasing evidence that vitamin D regulates immune responses. There is also
epidemiological evidence of a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and development …

Vitamin D deficiency is now recognized as pandemic and with multifactorial causes. A
growing number of studies on the adverse effects of vitamin D deficiency and its association …

Asthma, as a chronic inflammatory condition of the airways, has a considerable prevalence
among children. Vitamin D might play a role in asthma pathogenesis by affecting the …

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 …

Many observational studies have investigated the potential association between vitamin D
and asthma. However, it is difficult to find a temporal causal relationship in cross-sectional or …

To cite this article: Bozzetto S, Carraro S, Giordano G, Boner A, Baraldi E. Asthma, allergy,
and respiratory infections: the vitamin D hypothesis. Allergy 2012; 67: 10–17. Abstract The …

Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency are increasingly being recognized in the general
population, and have been largely attributed to lifestyle changes (reduced exposure to …

During the last decades, vitamin D deficiency has re-emerged worldwide affecting not only
population's bone health, but also several other conditions including asthma and allergies …

There is growing literature suggesting a link between Vitamin D deficiency and asthma in
children, but systematic reviews are lacking. The aim of this study is to evaluate the …

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 …