Study progress of vitamin D in respiratory diseases in children
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-428X.2019.21.019
- VernacularTitle: 维生素D在儿童常见呼吸系统疾病中的研究进展
- Author:
Jiaqing GENG
1
;
Chengzhi FANG
;
Binghong ZHANG
Author Information
1. Department of Neonatology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430000, China
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Vitamin D;
neonatal respiratory distress syndrome;
Bronchiolitis;
Asthma;
Recurrent respiratory infections
- From:
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics
2019;34(21):1674-1677
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Vitamin D is an active derivative of fat-soluble steroid, which can promotes the absorption of Ca in the intestine and maintains the concentrations of serum Ca in blood as well as phosphate.Recent researches found that the lack of vitamin D would increase the risk of respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, neuropsychiatric diseases, tumors and other metabolic diseases in addition to affecting the development of bones.More stu-dies have shown that low vitamin D levels is related to respiratory diseases in children.In this review, the physiological characteristics of vitamin D and the relationship with respiratory diseases in children were discussed.
