I. Executive Summary Background The 5 years since the publication of the first International
Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Rhinosinusitis (ICAR‐RS) has witnessed …

Vitamin D intervenes in calcium and phosphate metabolism and bone homeostasis.
Experimental studies have shown that 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D (calcitriol) generates …

Vitamin D plays a key role in in calcium homeostasis and, thus, provides an important
support in bone growth by aiding in the mineralization of the collagen matrix. However …

Contributing Authors Isam Alobid, MD, PhD1, Nithin D. Adappa, MD2, Henry P. Barham,
MD3, Thiago Bezerra, MD4, Nadieska Caballero, MD5, Eugene G. Chang, MD6, Gaurav …

Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin that has been produced on this earth for more than 500
million years. During exposure to sunlight 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin absorbs UV B …

Food components have long been recognized to play a fundamental role in the growth and
development of the human body, conferring protective functionalities against foreign matter …

Epidemiological studies have shown a dramatic increase in the incidence and the
prevalence of allergic diseases over the last several decades. Environmental triggers …

Maintaining a normal healthy immune defense system lowers the incidence and/or the
severity of symptoms and/or the duration of common cold (CC). Physical barriers and innate …

Vitamin D plays a pivotal role in the regulation of calcium-phosphorus metabolism,
particularly during pediatric age when nutritional rickets and impaired bone mass acquisition …

Abstract Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the only licenced tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, but
has limited efficacy against pulmonary TB disease development and modest protection …