Vitamin D and asthma

摘要: Asthma, one of the most prevalent diseases affecting people worldwide, is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by heightened airway inflammation, hyperresponsiveness and airflow obstruction in response to specific triggers. While mechanisms responsible for asthma are not well understood, changing environmental factors associated with urban lifestyles may underlie increased prevalence disorder. Vitamin D particular interest since vitamin concentrations decrease time spent indoors, decreased exposure sunlight, less exercise, obesity, inadequate calcium intake. Additionally, growing body literature suggests that there relationship between status symptoms, presumably through immunomodulatory effects D. This review discusses as it relates across age spectrum, focus on human studies.