Heart attack ICU costs cut in half by Vitamin D

The Incidence of Myocardial Infarctions and Hospital Costs in Surgical Intensive Care Unit Patients Reduced by Fifty Percent Using Daily, High Dose Vitamin D Supplementation

Dr. Leslie R. Matthews

Paper accepted to be presented @Scientific Forum program at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, October 21-25, 2018 in Boston, MA.

Dr. Matthews on Vitamin D Life

• ICU cost reduced by at least 27,000 dollars if get high dose vitamin D in first week - April 2017

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

  • “Daily, high dose vitamin D supplementation reduces the incidence of myocardial infarctions in surgical intensive care unit patients”

  ICU	50,000 IU	infarction rate	patients with infarction	Cost of ICU if have infarction
  Group 1	weekly	7.8%	22	$149,000
  Group 2	daily	3.9%	11	$32,000

• Note: daily 50,000 IU of Vitamin D was not started until enter ICU

  • Probably even more cost-effective if had started Vitamin D before surgery or started with a loading dose

• Vitamin D advocate (Dr. Matthews) is now in Who’s Who Marquis – Feb 2018

• Vitamin D and Glutamine reduced Trauma Center deaths by half – Matthews March 2017

• FDA decided to double vitamin D in milk after talking 4 times with by Dr. Matthews – July 2016

• US Army learning about benefits of vitamin D to trauma – Matthews Dec 2013

• Vitamin D and Glutamine resulted in 2.6X reduction in trauma center mortality rate – Dec 2014

Cost savings with Vitamin D includes the following

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See also Vitamin D Life

• Cardiovascular deaths 12 percent less likely if have 10 ng more vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2017

• Omega-3 provides many cardiovascular benefits – April 2018

• 7X increased chance of death if coronary artery disease and low vitamin D – Oct 2013

• Predicted cardiac surgery death associated with low vitamin D levels – Dec 2012

• items In Cardiovascular category

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