Is severe vitamin D deficiency associated with non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease : a case-control study?
Patients with NTM lung disease have a high prevalence of severe VDD and VDD was independently associated with NTM lung disease. Further studies are needed to examine causality.
HCA is associated with an increase of umbilical cord blood sCD163, but not PTX3 concentration. Umbilical cord blood sCD163 seems to be a postpartum marker of the presence of histological chorioamnionitis.