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Thorax 2007;62:466-468; doi:10.1136/thx.2006.073866
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Dietary supplements and asthma

Dietary supplements and asthma: another one bites the dust

Johanna Feary, John Britton

Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham, UK

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Professor J Britton
Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK; j.britton@virgin.net

No effect of selenium supplementation on symptoms of asthma

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Throughout history, clinical observation and clinical trials have identified links between nutritional deficiency and disease. For example, scurvy was described by Hippocrates over 2000 years ago, and native cultures have known its cause and cure for centuries. The first intervention study to demonstrate the successful treatment of scurvy with citrus fruits was published in 1753 by Captain James Lind in "A Treatise of the Scurvy". Moving forward to the 20th century, one of the resounding achievements in this field has been identification of the importance of folic acid supplements in the prevention of spina bifida, leading to an overall reduction in incidence in the Western world. The possibility that nutritional factors may play a similarly important role in the aetiology of chronic respiratory disease is therefore intriguing and has recently attracted a great deal of interest.

The aetiology of asthma remains unclear, but it . . . [Full text of this article]


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