Reference no: EM132263584

Vitamin D Supplements May Reduce Likelihood Of Asthma Attacks Serious Enough To Require Steroid Treatment, Hospitalization, Study Suggests

Reuters (10/18/2017, Rapaport) reports that an analysis suggests "asthma attacks serious enough to require steroid treatment or hospitalization may be less likely when people take vitamin D supplements." Investigators found that "when asthma patients took vitamin D supplements, they were 54 percent less likely to have an attack severe enough to require an emergency" department "visit or hospital admission." Additionally, "they were...31 percent less likely to have frequent asthma attacks requiring treatment with corticosteroids." The findings were published online in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Based on the report above and considering what you have learned so far in this course, providing vitamin D supplements to patients with asthma would be an example of:

A. Primary prevention

B. Secondary prevention

C. Tertiary prevention

D. Double prevention