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
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
Problem | 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
See Hypertension in VitaminDWiki
- Hypertension category listing has
161 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
41 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
See HIV (#1) in VitaminDWiki
- Treatment of HIV in youths helped by 7,000 IU of vitamin D – 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 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
See Cost Savings with Vitamin D in VitaminDWiki
- Cost savings with Vitamin D category listing has
152 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
Ages 45-64 and 65+
Insulin prices and usage are soaring
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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