Vitamin D status in veterans with inflammatory bowel disease: relationship to health care costs and services
| Autor: | Ravindra Murthy, Linda L. Garrett, Beth A. Bailey, Alan N. Peiris, Dima Youssef, Todd Manning, Antwan Atia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pharmacy Disease Inflammatory bowel disease Military medicine Crohn Disease Internal medicine Health care medicine Vitamin D and neurology Humans Vitamin D health care economics and organizations Aged Retrospective Studies Veterans Aged 80 and over business.industry Clinical Laboratory Techniques Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Vitamin D Deficiency Ulcerative colitis Radiography Pharmaceutical Services Physical therapy Colitis Ulcerative Female business |
| Zdroj: | Military medicine. 176(6) |
| ISSN: | 0026-4075 |
| Popis: | Vitamin D deficiency is a global pandemic associated with increased health care costs and could play a role in the pathogenesis and management of inflammatory bowel disease. This study examined vitamin D status in veterans with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) and assessed its relationship to health care costs and service utilization. Veteran patients (n = 125) with UC or CD and with an available 25-hydroxyvitamin D level were studied. CD patients were more likely to be vitamin D insufficient than the UC group. Despite the higher vitamin D levels among UC patients, they were significantly more likely to utilize laboratory and pharmacy services compared with CD patients, whereas patients with CD had significantly higher radiology and pharmacy costs. Thus, it is likely that disease-specific characteristics rather than vitamin D status determine the costs of health care services in veterans with established inflammatory bowel disease. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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