Relationship between vitamin D levels and bronchial asthma in children / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Asthma is an airway chronic inflammatory disease involving inflammatory cells of the airways.Chronic inflammation of the airway in children with asthma can cause reversible airway obstruction with varying degrees of recurrent air wheezing,dyspnea,chest tightness or coughing,which can have serious effects on children's physical and mental health and their families.In recent years,the incidence and mortality of the disease have been increasing year by year,but the pathogenesis is more complicated and not fully understood.Many studies have found that vitamin D deficiency had a certain relationship with the occurrence and development of asthma,which may provide new ideas for clinical prevention and treatment of asthma.Therefore,the relationship between vitamin D and asthma has become one of the hot topics of current researches.There are a lot of related research reports.This review mainly describes the current research progress on the relationship between vitamin D levels and bronchial asthma,and provides deep understanding of the relationship between the two,which may bring more effective therapeutic targets and ideas for asthma.