{"id":18667,"date":"2021-10-28T07:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=18667"},"modified":"2025-01-18T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T07:44:54","slug":"vitamin-d-kids-asthma-study-criticism-is-not-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/10\/vitamin-d-kids-asthma-study-criticism-is-not-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D Kids Asthma Study – Criticism is not justified"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Aug 12,\u00a0 Science magazine<\/a> published a strange journalistic article<\/a> about an ongoing vitamin D asthma study.\u00a0 I responded on the next day <\/a>while also the former editor-in-chief of Science Jeremy Berg<\/a> noted<\/p>\n

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Science Mag then printed also a longer rebuttal of Dr. Berg<\/a><\/p>\n

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Piller minimizes the rationale used to select the placebo-controlled trial design and suggests that there is agreement that such a design is unethical… The News story notes that the majority of children in the trial were Black and states that this constitutes overrepresentation… Rather than being criticized, this trial should be commended for inclusion of appropriate trial participants…. Piller writes that participants were at increased risk of fractures and that the nine bone fractures experienced by study participants were more than anticipated, without specifying the magnitude of any increased risk or the anticipated number of fractures. However, there is no consensus that any increased risk exists…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
as well as the response of Dr. Celedon in the same issue<\/div>\n
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Piller misrepresents the Vitamin D Kids Asthma Study (\u201cVit-D-Kids\u201d or \u201cVDKA\u201d) . He reports concerns about the study\u2019s design, participant safety and selection, consent forms, and report trans-parency. These doubts are unfounded. VDKA ethically investigated a potentially important treatment for childhood asthma.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately the concluding statement of the news editor Tim Appenzeller<\/a> is so much out of this world that I would recommend to search now not only for another news correspondent but also another news editor.<\/p>\n

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Edit 18 Jan 2025<\/span><\/p>\n