Vitamins Could Reduce Birth-Defect Costs by 40%

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Vitamins Could Reduce Birth-Defect Costs by 40%

his study used published relative-risk estimates for birth defects, premature births, and coronary heart disease associated with vitamin intake to project potential annual cost reductions in U.S. hospitalization charges.

Results suggest that, based on published risk reductions, annual hospital charges could be reduced for birth defects (40%), low-birth-weight premature births (60%), and coronary heart disease (38%). For the conditions studied, nearly $20 billion in hospital charges were potentially avoidable with daily use of folic acid and zinc-containing multivitamins by all women of childbearing age, and daily vitamin E supplementation by those over 50.
Bendich A, Mallick R, Leader S. Potential health economic benefits of vitamin supplementation. Western Journal of Medicine, 1997;(166), pp306-12.