Estimate that there will have been about 12,000 new vitamin D publications by the end of 2012 since IoM data cutoff

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Exponential growth in research, how much evidence is needed?
    longer title: The exponential growth of the vitamin D research literature; how much evidence is required before mainstream acceptance?
*Actual 2011 = 3097; First 48 days of 2012 = 571; extrapolated for all of 2012 ==> 4342 publications
Publication = PubMed search: "vitamin d" [Title/Abstract]

Vertical axis: number of publications per year

See also Vitamin D Life

• Proof that vitamin D works
• Recent Vitamin D Meta-analysis and Reviews - July 2011
• All items in Meta-analysis of Vitamin D 480 items
• Summary of Vitamin D trials - Grant Jan 2012
• Overview Evidence for vitamin D
• All items in category Evidence for Vitamin D 47 items
• Clinical Trials for Vitamin D - 2012
  784 Vitamin D Intervention trials as of Dec 2011
• 101 vitamin D INVERVENTION trials added during first 7 months of 2012
• When will low vitamin D be a crime? which has the following
  Doctors are slow to change for many reasons
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it” Upton Sinclair
  Gynecologists may have the most to lose when patients have enough vitamin D
• Far more vitamin D publications than other vitamins - Sept 2012 which has the following chart