The association between vitamin D status and the rate of exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroids in preschool children with recurrent wheezing

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo; St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, Mo. Electronic address: beigelman_a@kids.wustl.edu.
• ² Department of Allergy, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, San Diego, Calif; Department of Pediatrics, University of California-La Jolla, Calif.
• ³ Department of Public Health Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pa.
• ⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo; St Louis Children's Hospital, St Louis, Mo.
• ⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wis.
• ⁶ Arizona Respiratory Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
• ⁷ Divisions of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology and Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colo; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colo.
• ⁸ Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colo; University of Denver, Denver, Colo; Department of Pediatrics, Breathing Institute, Pulmonary Medicine Section, Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver, Colo.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colo; University of Denver, Denver, Colo.