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Article: Vitamins can save billions. (vitamin use lowers health care expenses as it reduces birth defects, premature births and heart diseases)
- Article from:
- Chain Drug Review
- Article date:
- October 6, 1997
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WASHINGTON - A recent analysis of vitamin use has concluded that significant reductions in birth defects, premature births and coronary heart disease can be achieved with daily supplementation, saving the country billions of dollars a year in health care expenditures.
Regular use of several specific vitamins to prevent those conditions could cut $20 billion in annual hospital costs, according to a study on the impact of preventive nutrition published earlier this year in The Western Journal of Medicine.
The savings to the Medicare program alone would be $11 billion a year, the report says, with hospital charges for heart disease being reduced 38%, costs for ...