The impact of Vitamin D levels in predicting childhood asthma among Egyptian infants

Abstract

Rationale: Ecologically, many of the patterns of vitamin D deficiency appear to be parallel to the patterns of the asthma epidemics. There are several Potential mechanisms for how vitamin D might decrease the disease severity of asthma and allergies. In this study, we tried to study the effect of serum vitamin D on the risk of development of childhood asthma by calculating Asthma predictive index (API) in relation to serum vitamin D levels.