Health Care Costs in US are increasing - infographics and Vitamin D - Dec 2016

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
Most were taking 2,000 to 7,000 IU daily for >50% of pregnancy
   Click on hyperlinks for details

Problem	Vit. D Reduces	Evidence
0. Chance of not conceiving	3.4 times	Observe
1. Miscarriage	2.5 times	Observe
2. Pre-eclampsia	3.6 times	RCT
3. Gestational Diabetes	3 times	RCT
4. Good 2nd trimester sleep quality	3.5 times	Observe
5. Premature birth	2 times	RCT
6. C-section - unplanned	1.6 times	Observe
Stillbirth - OMEGA-3	4 times	RCT - Omega-3
7. Depression AFTER pregnancy	1.4 times	RCT
8. Small for Gestational Age	1.6 times	meta-analysis
9. Infant height, weight, head size      within normal limits		RCT
10. Childhood Wheezing	1.3 times	RCT
11. Additional child is Autistic	4 times	Intervention
12.Young adult Multiple Sclerosis	1.9 times	Observe
13. Preeclampsia in young adult	3.5 times	RCT
14. Good motor skills @ age 3	1.4 times	Observe
15. Childhood Mite allergy	5 times	RCT
16. Childhood Respiratory Tract visits	2.5 times	RCT

RCT = Randomized Controlled Trial

Vitamin D can also lower costs of ADHD

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See Hypertension in VitaminDWiki

• Hypertension category listing has 166 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 44 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 158 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
  
  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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