Is vitamin D insufficiency to blame for recurrent wheezing?

International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 980-985

  Demirel, Soner ^a   Guner, Sukru Nail ^a   Celiksoy, Mehmet Halil ^a   Sancak, Recep ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

25(OH)D; Allergens; Asthma; Therapeutics; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; VITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TINGLING; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; WHEEZING; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84918829514     PISSN: 20426976     EISSN: 20426984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/alr.21401     Document Type: Article

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