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Author response—vitamin D deficiency and systemic inflammation in bronchiectasis
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Dr Charles Shee raises a further possible explanation for our finding of an association between vitamin D status and disease severity in bronchiectasis, that low vitamin D status represents a negative acute phase response to acute inflammation.1
Our study was cross-sectional and was unable to establish whether vitamin D deficiency is a cause or consequence of bronchiectasis.2 Possible explanations that have been previously suggested are failed bacterial …
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