Health Care Costs in US are increasing - infographics and Vitamin D

US Spending on Personal Health Care and Public Health, 1996-2013

JAMA . 2016;316(24):2627-2646. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.16885

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Here are some of the charts but none of the tables

Largest cost (37%) = Doctor's office visits (general + specialists)

    37%= $706/$1929

Note: 75% reduction in clinic visits after all (8,000) patients had > 80 ng of Vitamin D

In addition to Vitamin D, the clinic also sometimes prescribed Magnesiuim, Iodine, or Vitamin C

No indication of associated cost reductions due to Vitamin D for hospitals, drugs, dental. Emergency, etc,

Click Here for interactive version of the above chart and 50 others

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Increase in costs:

Note: Pregnancy + Newborn Costs >$100 Billion

VitaminDWiki summarizes studies which show how vitamin D will lower costs of Prenancy and Newborn

Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D has the following summary

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Vitamin D can also lower costs of ADHD

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See Hypertension in VitaminDWiki

• Hypertension category listing has items along with related searches

• Hypertension 2X more likely when vitamin D levels lower than 14 ng – meta-analysis May 2012

• Blood pressure in diabetics reduced by 12 weekly doses of 50,000 IU vitamin D – RCT Jan 2014

• Hypertension (both systolic and diastolic) reduced with 2,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT June 2014

• Hypertension 1.5X more likely if low level of Magnesium - Oct 2014

See Back Pain and Chronic Pain in VitaminDWiki

• Back Pain category listing has items along with related searches

• Backache strongly associated with low vitamin D – July 2014

• Back pain cured with vitamin D – Book May 2014

• Back pain reduced for 95 percent of those who took vitamin D - 2003 file, not a webpage

  • This file resulted in the creation of VitaminDWiki
• Overview Pain and Vitamin D

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See HIV (#1) in VitaminDWiki

• Treatment of HIV in youths helped by 7,000 IU of vitamin D for 1 year – RCT July 2014

• HIV children in UK – Vitamin D recommendations – Feb 2014

• Those with HIV who doubled their vitamin D levels reduced their chance of death by 47 percent – Oct 2013

• Overview HIV and vitamin D

See RTI (#2) in VitaminDWiki

• Search VitaminDWiki for "Respiratory Tract Infection" 267 items as of Dec 2016

• Respiratory Tract Infection visits 2.5 less likely with vitamin D: Pregnancy 2000 IU, Infant 800 IU – RCT Oct 2014

• Largest cause of infant deaths is respiratory infections, which is associated with low vitamin D – April 2011

• RTI – Feel much better if increase vitamin D level above 40 ng (4000 IU) – RCT Sept 2015

• Acute lower respiratory infection 5X more frequent with low vitamin D intake – June 2012

See Diarrhea (#3) in VitaminDWiki

• Diarrhea more common in children having low vitamin D - Nov 2014

• Search VitaminDWiki for DIARRHEA 262 items Dec 2016

• Rotavirus diarrhea (nearly every child gets it) is strongly associated with low vitamin D – Aug 2015

• Superbug (Clostridium difficile) Infections strongly associated with low vitamin D - many studies

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See Cost Savings with Vitamin D in VitaminDWiki

• Cost savings with Vitamin D category listing has items along with related searches

• Increasing the vitamin D level of all Canadians to 40 ng would save 6 to 18 billion dollars a year – Grant Nov 2016

• Vitamin D once during pregnancy reduced infant health care costs (300 times ROI) – RCT Dec 2015

• Costs of Pregnancy much reduced by Vitamin D

• 18 fewer hospital days if given 500,000 IU of vitamin D while ventilated in ICU – RCT June 2016

• Hospital ICU added high dose vitamin D - malpractice lawsuit costs dropped from 26 million dollars to ZERO - Oct 2016

• UK patients given vitamin D for 3 months were 16 percent less likely to be readmitted – Sept 2016

• Heart Attack ICU costs reduced $37,000 by $20 of Vitamin D – Nov 2015

• US people pay more for health care and die sooner (Vitamin D could help) - Aug 2016 which has the following chart

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  • Red arrow added by VitaminDWiki: lower cost AND live 2 years longer

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Ages 45-64 and 65+

Insulin prices and usage are soaring

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What the study did not include

• Costs of visits - they just used the # of visits
  • Dental example: 1 visit which could be for a low-cost fluoride treatment or for a high-cost root canal

• Costs of home caregiving 44 million people in US provide free care-giving

• Lost wages - short or long term - for self or family caregiver

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