Can vitamin D intake during pregnancy affect the risk of allergy in children?

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 699-701

  Junge, Kristin M ^a   Lehmann, Irina ^a   Borte, Michael ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

allergy; asthma; children; cord blood; pregnancy; supplementation; vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; EDITORIAL; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUNLIGHT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LIGHT; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK; VITAMIN D;

EID: 84887845489     PISSN: 1744666X     EISSN: 17448409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/1744666X.2013.816481     Document Type: Editorial

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