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Source: Daily Mail
Date: 09/12/2005
The Daily Mail and the Times both report on research from King's College London, which has found that
taking vitamin D3 improves asthma sufferers responses to steroid treatment. The research, to be published
in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that in laboratory experiments D3 could reverse resistance
to steroid treatments. Researchers then carried out a pilot study involving people with asthma who were
unresponsive to steroids and found that after a week of daily D3 supplements, patients' immune systems
were more responsive. Repeat asthma attacks hospitalise 75,000 a year, killing 1,400. It is hoped the
work will lead to new ways of treating these people.
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