TY - JOUR T1 - Vitamin D deficiency and the asthma epidemic JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 293 LP - 293 DO - 10.1136/thx.2007.091728 VL - 63 IS - 3 AU - S O Shaheen Y1 - 2008/03/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/63/3/293.1.abstract N2 - The enthusiastic editorial by Weiss and Litonjua (Thorax 2007;62:745–6) may have left some readers with the impression that a single cause of the rise in asthma, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease and type 1 diabetes in the West has now been discovered, namely vitamin D deficiency, and that primary prevention of asthma and autoimmune disease is just around the corner. Indeed, their bold conclusion portrays vitamin D supplementation as a likely panacea for many ills worldwide. Weiss and Litonjua argue that … ER -