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• Asthma in child 2.3 X more likely if both parents asthmatic (unless add Vitamin D) – VDAART Nov 2018
• Asthma may be treated by Vitamin D if more than 40 ng for 12 months – Sept 2018
• Adult-onset asthma 30 percent more likely if low vitamin D 4 years before – May 2018
• Child Asthma increased 2.1 X by antibiotics, Child milk allergy increased 4.4 X by PPI – April 2018
• Asthmatic children taking Corticosteroids had 2X more vitamin D intake, but lower levels – July 2017
• Vitamin D supplements could halve risk of serious asthma attacks – Cochrane conclusion – Sept 2016
• Traffic pollution increases asthma unless supplement with Vitamin D (mice) June 2018
• Childhood asthma problems eliminated for months by 600,000 IU of Vitamin D – June 2017
• Asthma reduced 60 percent with vitamin D supplementation – meta-analysis 2014, 2015
• Proof that Vitamin D Works 86 health problems prevented/treated as of May 2018
  Asthma has been proven to be treated by Vitamin D in at least 4 random controlled trials
• Childhood asthma still reduced 4 months after 800 IU of Vitamin D daily - RCT Feb 2016
• Women with asthma 35X more likely to be vitamin D deficient – Oct 2013
• Search VitaminDWiki for ASTHMA in title 193 items as of May 2018
• Childhood asthma about 1.3 times more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis Aug 2016
• If high vitamin D during pregnancy the child is 5X less likely to get asthma
• Asthma is treated by Vitamin D – now they are trying to understand why – Feb 2015
• Increase in vitamin D deficiency may partially explain increases in asthma and allergies – Jan 2015
• Asthma attacks reduced in half if Vitamin D level higher than 42 nanograms – RCT May 2014 intervention
• Should Vitamin D Supplementation Be a Regular Part of Asthma Care – Oct 2013
• Strong Vitamin D deficiency associations in Asthma patients – Nov 2014
• Increase in vitamin D deficiency may partially explain increases in asthma and allergies – Jan 2015
• Allergies and asthma – overwhelming experimental evidence that vitamin D helps – more studies needed – Dec 2014
• All items in Breathing and Vitamin D 323 items includes Asthma, Pneunomia, RTI, TB, Allergy, COPD
• Search VitaminDWiki for Wheeze 756 items as of May 2018
• Asthma much worse in city with little vitamin D – March 2014 - less UV and less outdoors ==> less vitamin D
• More lung capacity (bronchial asthma, FEV1) associated with higher vitamin D – July 2013
• Why deficiencies in vitamin D and magnesium are linked to asthma Magnesium allows muscles to relax
• All items in category Autoimmune and Vitamin D 123 items
• Video by Dr. Coimbra – 95 percent of auto-immune cured with vitamin D in high doses - April 2014
• Acetaminophen (Tylenol) increases asthma wonder if Tylenol decreased vitamin D,which increases Asthma
• The worse the bronchial asthma, the lower the vitamin D – Jan 2017

Recent studies in Breathing and Intervention categories (give vitamin D and see what happens) in VitaminDWiki:

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See also on the web

• Asthma Overview Vitamin D council update Nov 2015
  1,000 IU of vitamin D per 25 lbs of body weight; 23 references
• Asthmatics exhale better if higher level of Vitamin D - 2018
  Correlation between the vitamin D levels and asthma attacks in children: Evaluation of the effects of combination therapy of atomization inhalation of budesonide, albuterol and vitamin D supplementation on asthmatic patients.
  MEF25 = Maximal Expiratory Flow at 25% of Forced Vital Capacity
  
   Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki
• US Clinical Trials 54 Vitamin D intervention trials for Asthma of April 2018, including
  • 4,000 IU daily prevention by supplementing pregnant mother
  • 2,000 IU daily
• Studies Suggest an Acetaminophen-Asthma Link NYT Dec 2011 - NOT vitamin D
  The sharp worldwide increase in childhood asthma over the past 30 years has long perplexed researchers,
  Doctors stopped giving aspirin to children with fevers, opting instead for acetaminophen. (Reyes - 1980's)
     VitaminDWiki wonders if this association deals with world-wide, latitude, etc.
• International patent for vitamin D and analogs to prevent asthma
  (WO2005079464) VITAMIN D RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS AND THEIR USE IN TREATING ASTHMA
• Why are asthma rates higher among children now than in the past? Medical Expresss Nov 2012
  Have given up on many previous hypothesis, and now considering vitamin D deficiency]
• Mendelian randomization analysis demonstrates that low vitamin D is unlikely causative for pediatric asthma. Aug 2016
  Behind a paywall. Yes, few studies showing that low Vitamin D CAUSES asthma,
  but there are many studies show that Vitamin D treats asthma. Study is behind a $36 paywall
• Effects of vitamin D levels on asthma control and severity in pre-school children 2016
  Ages 1-4, winter, free PDF online
  10 ng/ml in the asthma group and 15 ng/ml control group
• Vitamin d insufficiency and asthma severity in adults from Costa Rica Sept 2013

5X less likely to be hospitalized for Asthma if adequate vitamin D
 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki

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Asthma Drug Therapy (nothing about Vitamin D)