Vitamin D Reduces Medical Problems better than aspirin
Vitamin D helps many medical conditions.
__50% of seniors (US) take baby aspirin daily But, baby aspirin helps only one medical condition, Heart Attacks, a small amount **#### Here are the benefits of vitamin D
||Medical Condition| * % reduction in chance of having the condition with about 4,000 IU vitamin D *Flu 12| 90 %| 
Preeclampsia 1| 80 %|
Later childhood Asthma 1| 80 %|
Diabetes 3 | 60 %|
Multiple Sclerosis 3 7 13 | 60 % |
Pre-term birth 1| 50 %|
Pregnancy problem 1| 50 %|
Falls (elderly) 3 14 15 | 50 %|
Fractures (elderly) 3 15| 50 %|
Heart Attack 3| 40 %|
Breast Cancer 3| 40 %|
All Cancers | 40 % | ||* Can typically achieve 40 nanogram/milliliter level with 4,000 IU of vitamin D * Above % are the increases from a vitamin D level 25 ng/mL Increase the % benefit even more if start with lower level or use higher levels of supplementation **### Here are the benefits of baby aspirin
||Medical Condition | * % reduction *Heart Attack 11 *|10 %| 
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- Also: 20% less likely to have a nonfatal heart attack.
* but, 30% more likely to have a serious gastrointestinal bleeding event * Candidate medical conditions which might be added to the table include *Osteoporosis, Psorasis, Sepsis, MRSA, IBD, Asthma Aspirin *Reduces pain, but does not eliminate the cause of the pain
Preeclampsia - Meta-analysis says no Sept 2011
Colon Cancer - causes problems as well as prevents some for those at high risk.
Lung Cancer
~tc~* Notes for the webpage *Consider a different color for all bars - for example green
Might indicate the several times when the condition ==> death
WG comments: diabetes 30%, heart attack 25%, all cancers 20-25%, multiple sclerosis: 60%, asthma: 30-50%
Give example for %:
80% = Studies have shown that people with 40 ng/ml of vitamin D are 80% less likely to have the problem
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References
1 Vitamin D: Before, During, and After Pregnancy
2 All items in category Rickets and vitamin D* items *3 Vitamin D decreases incidence of disease
4 Overview Osteoarthritis and Vitamin D
5 Overview Cancer and vitamin D
6 Overview Cardiovascular and vitamin D
8 Overview Kidney and vitamin D (renal)
9 Overview Diabetes and vitamin D
10 Overview Evidence for Vitamin D
11 New York Times on Baby Aspirin - Jan 16, 2012
12 Summary of Vitamin D trials - Grant Jan 2012
13 3X less Multiple Sclerosis with enough vitamin D - Veterans Administration
14 Overview Fractures Falls and Vitamin D
15 Overview Fractures and vitamin D