Number Of People Being Tested For Vitamin D “Deficiency” Increasing.

reports that an increasing number of people “are being tested for vitamin D ‘deficiency.’” In fact, “the number of blood tests for vitamin D levels among Medicare beneficiaries, mostly people 65 and older, increased 83-fold from 2000 to 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” Many who take the vitamin believe it “can help turn back depression, fatigue, muscle weakness, even heart disease or cancer,” even though there is no “widely accepted evidence” that it can. According to the Times, six years ago, an Endocrine Society committee issued” a recommendation that vitamin D levels be at least 30 nanograms per milliliter.” At that time, “the group recommended the taking of supplements but not widespread testing, on the grounds that this would not be cost-effective.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/health/vitamin-d-deficiency-supplements.html?_r=0