Estimate that there will have been about 12,000 new vitamin D publications by the end of 2012 since IoM data cutoff

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Exponential growth in research, how much evidence is needed?

      longer title: The exponential growth of the vitamin D research literature; how much evidence is required before mainstream acceptance?

* Actual 2011 = 3097; First 48 days of 2012 = 571; extrapolated for all of 2012 ==> 4342 publications

Publication = PubMed search: "vitamin d" Title/Abstract

Vertical axis: number of publications per year

See also VitaminDWiki

• Proof that vitamin D works

• Recent Vitamin D Meta-analysis and Reviews - July 2011

• All items in Meta-analysis of Vitamin D items

• Summary of Vitamin D trials - Grant Jan 2012

• Overview Evidence for vitamin D

• All items in category Evidence for Vitamin D items

• Clinical Trials for Vitamin D - 2012

  • 784 Vitamin D Intervention trials as of Dec 2011

• 101 vitamin D INVERVENTION trials added during first 7 months of 2012

• When will low vitamin D be a crime? which has the following

  • Doctors are slow to change for many reasons
  •    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it” Upton Sinclair
  • Gynecologists may have the most to lose when patients have enough vitamin D
• Far more vitamin D publications than other vitamins - Sept 2012 which has the following chart