The Incidence of Myocardial Infarctions and Hospital Costs in Surgical Intensive Care Unit Patients Reduced by Fifty Percent Using Daily, High Dose Vitamin D Supplementation

Dr. Leslie R. Matthews
Paper accepted to be presented @Scientific Forum program at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, October 21-25, 2018 in Boston, MA.

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Dr. Matthews on VitaminDWiki

• ICU cost reduced by at least 27,000 dollars if get high dose vitamin D in first week - April 2017
• Heart Attack ICU costs reduced $37,000 by $20 of Vitamin D – Nov 2015
  “Daily, high dose vitamin D supplementation reduces the incidence of myocardial infarctions in surgical intensive care unit patients”

ICU	50,000 IU	infarction rate	patients with infarction	Cost of ICU if have infarction
Group 1	weekly	7.8%	22	$149,000
Group 2	daily	3.9%	11	$32,000

• Note: daily 50,000 IU of Vitamin D was not started until enter ICU
  • Probably even more cost-effective if had started Vitamin D before surgery or started with a loading dose
• Vitamin D advocate (Dr. Matthews) is now in Who’s Who Marquis – Feb 2018
• Vitamin D and Glutamine reduced Trauma Center deaths by half – March 2017
• FDA decided to double vitamin D in milk after talking 4 times with by Dr. Matthews – July 2016
• US Army learning about benefits of vitamin D to trauma – Dec 2013
• Vitamin D and Glutamine resulted in 2.6X reduction in trauma center mortality rate – Dec 2014

Cost savings with Vitamin D includes the following

• Medical problems are thought to be a cause of 66 percent of bankruptcies – April 2019
• Vitamin D is the 3rd most important contributor to health, following exercise and food
• 10 fewer days of ICU Mechanical Ventilation if add 2 dollars of vitamin D – RCT March 2019
• Employers should give night shift workers free vitamin D – GMB Union June 2019
• Biology of Vitamin D – 30ng min., 50ng preferred, 1000X lower cost than health problem – Feb 2019
• Heart attack ICU costs cut in half by Vitamin D – Oct 2018
• Cost of US health exceeds the cost of food
• Curing patients is not a sustainable business model – Goldman Sachs – April 2018
• Medical insurance does not compensate for job loss by older workers who are hospitalized – Sept 2016
• If you cannot readily get medical treatment, consider Alternative Med such as vitamin D

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Cardiovascular deaths 12 percent less likely if have 10 ng more vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2017
• Omega-3 provides many cardiovascular benefits – April 2018
• 7X increased chance of death if coronary artery disease and low vitamin D – Oct 2013
• Predicted cardiac surgery death associated with low vitamin D levels – Dec 2012
• 422 items In Cardiovascular category