Vitamin D Levels Linked To Asthma Severity

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 09:42 in Health & Medicine

New research provides evidence for a link between vitamin D insufficiency and asthma severity. Serum levels of vitamin D in more than 600 Costa Rican children were inversely linked to several indicators of allergy and asthma severity, including hospitalizations for asthma, use of inhaled steroids and total IgE levels, according to a new study.

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