Exposure to Vitamin D Fortification Policy in Prenatal Life and the Risk of Childhood Asthma: Results From the D-Tect Study

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Exposure to Vitamin D Fortification Policy in Prenatal Life and the Risk of Childhood Asthma : Results From the D-Tect Study. / Thorsteinsdottir, Fanney; Maslova, Ekaterina; Jacobsen, Ramune; Frederiksen, Peder; Keller, Amélie; Backer, Vibeke; Heitmann, Berit Lilienthal.

In: Nutrients, Vol. 11, No. 4, 924, 2019.

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Thorsteinsdottir, F, Maslova, E, Jacobsen, R, Frederiksen, P, Keller, A, Backer, V & Heitmann, BL 2019, 'Exposure to Vitamin D Fortification Policy in Prenatal Life and the Risk of Childhood Asthma: Results From the D-Tect Study', Nutrients, vol. 11, no. 4, 924. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11040924

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Thorsteinsdottir, F., Maslova, E., Jacobsen, R., Frederiksen, P., Keller, A., Backer, V., & Heitmann, B. L. (2019). Exposure to Vitamin D Fortification Policy in Prenatal Life and the Risk of Childhood Asthma: Results From the D-Tect Study. Nutrients, 11(4), [924]. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11040924

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Thorsteinsdottir F, Maslova E, Jacobsen R, Frederiksen P, Keller A, Backer V et al. Exposure to Vitamin D Fortification Policy in Prenatal Life and the Risk of Childhood Asthma: Results From the D-Tect Study. Nutrients. 2019;11(4). 924. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11040924

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Thorsteinsdottir, Fanney ; Maslova, Ekaterina ; Jacobsen, Ramune ; Frederiksen, Peder ; Keller, Amélie ; Backer, Vibeke ; Heitmann, Berit Lilienthal. / Exposure to Vitamin D Fortification Policy in Prenatal Life and the Risk of Childhood Asthma : Results From the D-Tect Study. In: Nutrients. 2019 ; Vol. 11, No. 4.

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abstract = "Prenatal vitamin D insufficiency may be associated with an increased risk of developing childhood asthma. Results from epidemiological studies are conflicting and limited by short follow-up and small sample sizes. The objective of this study was to examine if children born to women exposed to the margarine fortification policy with a small dose of extra vitamin D during pregnancy had a reduced risk of developing asthma until age 9 years, compared to children born to unexposed women. The termination of a Danish mandatory vitamin D fortification policy constituted the basis for the study design. We compared the risk of inpatient asthma diagnoses in all Danish children born two years before (n = 106,347, exposed) and two years after (n = 115,900, unexposed) the termination of the policy. The children were followed in the register from 0-9 years of age. Data were analyzed using Cox proportional hazards regression. The Hazard Ratio for the first inpatient asthma admission among exposed versus unexposed children was 0.96 (95%CI: 0.90-1.04). When stratifying by sex and age, 0-3 years old boys exposed to vitamin D fortification showed a lower asthma risk compared to unexposed boys (HR 0.78, 95%CI: 0.67-0.92). Prenatal exposure to margarine fortification policy with extra vitamin D did not affect the overall risk of developing asthma among children aged 0-9 years but seemed to reduce the risk among 0-3 years old boys. Taking aside study design limitations, this could be explained by different sensitivity to vitamin D from different sex-related asthma phenotypes in children with early onset, and sex differences in lung development or immune responses.",
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