Vitamin D supplementation: Possible gain in life years combined with cost savings
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10 February 2021Vitamin D supplementation: Possible gain in life years combined with cost savings
In recent years, three meta-analyses of clinical studies have come to the conclusion that vitamin D supplementation was associated with a reduction in the mortality rate from cancer of around 13 percent. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now transferred these results to the situation in Germany and calculated: If all Germans over the age of 50 were to take vitamin D supplements, up to 30,000 cancer deaths per year could possibly be avoided and more than 300,000 years of life could be gained—in addition, health care costs could be saved.
