US people pay more for health care, die sooner than people in other developed countries
details are at Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier
Red arrow added by Vitamin D Life: lower cost AND live 2 years longer
Vitamin D can lower health care costs
- Vitamin D once during pregnancy reduced infant health care costs (300 times ROI) – RCT Dec 2015
- 18 fewer hospital days if given 500,000 IU of vitamin D while ventilated in ICU – RCT June 2016
- Omega-3 supplementation during pregnancy reduce early pre-term births (save 1500 USD per child) – Aug 2016
- Heart Attack ICU costs reduced $37,000 by $20 of Vitamin D – Nov 2015
- Save 2 billion dollars annually in fractures if take Vitamin D and Calcium – Frost and Sullivan Sept 2013
- Can Vitamin D be a Cure to Health Care Sustainability (question mark) – symposium May 2014
- Hospital stay 6 days longer for nursing home residents with low vitamin D – Oct 2011
- Dr. who got patients to vitamin D level of 80 ng visits (by 2,000 patients in his clinic) dropped from 4 per year to 1 per year
- Health Care Costs in US are increasing - infographics and Vitamin D - Dec 2016
- Far more lobbyists will OPPOSE Vitamin D than PROMOTE Vitamin D