Asthma and allergy: Vitamin D primes neonatal immune system

Nature Reviews Immunology 17, 467 (2017). doi:10.1038/nri.2017.82 Author: Yvonne Bordon Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy has been linked to the development of childhood asthma, but most studies in this area have been observational. To directly examine how vitamin D status in pregnancy affects the neonatal immune system, Hornsby et al. analysed cord blood samples
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