Excessive vitamin D testing in Australia

Highlights from Huge rise in vitamin D testing is not making us healthier Sidney July 2012

• Cost of vitamin D testing 100X more than in year 2000.
  • (assuming that the figure includes that the cost of each vitamin D test has probably dropped by 2X, makes for 200X more tests)

• 15% of people had 4 tests per year

• 8% of people had 5 tests per year

• propose limiting to 3 tests per year per person

• Currently 5 tests per 100 people

See also Vitamin D Life

• Vitamin D testing in Australia before they shut it down – 42 percent retested – 2013 details of the study

• All items in category Australia and New Zealand items

• 73 percent of Australians had too little vitamin D a decade ago – Dec 2011

• VA showed increased vitamin D testing associated with lower health costs - Lancet May 2012

• After 245,000 free vitamin D tests, 121,000 supplemented, but only 5,400 had 2nd test – Oct 2011 Israel

• When to test for Vitamin D - Sept 2011

• All items in category Test for D items

  • Many on variation between tests: different days, different testing methods

• VA showed increased vitamin D testing associated with lower health costs - Lancet May 2012

• Vitamin D testing expected to grow 33 percent per year - Feb 2012