Vitamin D deficiency linked to asthma, COPD

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Vitamin D deficiency is an exploding epidemic. Besides bone disorders like osteoporosis, vitamin D has been associated a with a variety of ailments including skin disorders, infection and cancer. Multiple reports document that illnesess as common as asthma and COPD may be linked as well.

Vitamin D possesses a range of anti-inflammatory properties and may be involved in a variety of metabolic pathways. Chronic pulmonary disorders like asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) have been associated with  vitamin D on a genetic basis. Gilbert et al. believe that immune and genetic effect vitamin D levels may impact upon the pathogenesis of a variety of pulmonary dysfunction.

Increased airway smooth muscle mass plays a critical role in chronic asthmatic airway.  Clifford and Knox argue that the inhibition of its proliferation of this airway smooth muscle mass may be a associated with vitamin D related metabolic pathways.  Vitamin D may thus be a potential treatment for airway remodelling in asthma.

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