{"id":2265,"date":"2018-04-22T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T08:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxygenworldwide.wordpress.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2018-04-22T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T08:46:40","slug":"sun-rays-and-copd-living-in-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/sun-rays-and-copd-living-in-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun rays and COPD living in the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSummer is on its way and this means we are exposed to a lot more summer related allergies and with COPD even though there are multiple contributors to COPD such as tobacco smoke, occupational dusts, chemicals and air pollution, vitamin D and sun deficiencies may also play a role.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/oxygenworldwide.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/22\/sun-rays-and-copd-living-in-the-summer\/sun\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2266 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sun.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sun.png 480w, https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sun-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/sun-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Research has demonstrated that the severity of the disease is correlated directly to levels of vitamin D,<a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightinstitute.org\/does-does-sun-exposure-have-an-influence-on-copd\/#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> and other research demonstrates that severe disturbed lung and peripheral muscle functions are more pronounced in COPD patients with vitamin D deficiency. I<a href=\"http:\/\/sunlightinstitute.org\/does-does-sun-exposure-have-an-influence-on-copd\/#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>n addition, recent research shows that cardiopulmonary exercise capacity is increased remarkably in people with high vitamin D levels compared to those with low levels. Of course, 90% of vitamin D blood levels are produced by sun exposure.<br \/>\nOne may intelligently conclude, based on this information, that a part of the cause for both diseases is a lack of sun-derived vitamin D.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nref: http:\/\/sunlightinstitute.org\/does-does-sun-exposure-have-an-influence-on-copd\/\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is on its way and this means we are exposed to a lot more summer related allergies and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,22,403],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portable-oxygen","tag-breathing","tag-copd","tag-vitamin-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxygenworldwide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}