Rapid vs Maintenance Vitamin D Supplementation in Deficient Children With Asthma to Prevent Exacerbations.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The role of vitamin D in respiratory health remains uncertain. Whether vitamin D reduces clinically important exacerbations of childhood asthma remains uncertain. We compared rapid to maintenance vitamin D repletion analyzed by baseline vitamin D level.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hamad Medical Corporation
• Treatments: Ergocalciferols; Vitamin D; Vitamins

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children 2-14 years of age with moderate to severe asthma and proved to be Vitamin D deficient by serum level.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

• Prematurity (Gestational age 34 weeks or less)

• Patients on vitamin D therapy

• Patients on seizure medication or diuretics

• Patients on chronic steroid use for other reasons than asthma

• Patient with chronic liver or kidney disease

• Patients with inherited bone disease

• Patients with hypo or hyper parathyroidism

• Patients with history of chronic lung disease other than asthma