LISBON, PORTUGAL — May 13, 2002 —
Researchers in France have found that simple dietary supplementation with calcium and vitamin D not only helps prevent hip fracture in institutionalized elderly women, it also saves up to 711,000 Euros (some US $640,000) per 1000 treated.
“We know supplementation with calcium and vitamin D can reduce the rate of fractures,” said Prof. Pierre Meunier, Professor of Medicine at the Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France, speaking here yesterday at the International Osteoporosis Federation’s World Congress on Osteoporosis.
“The question to be answered was, ‘Is it cost effective?” They used the results of the three year placebo-controlled Decalyos study to perform an economic analysis of the effects of calcium-vitamin D3 supplementation in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The Decalyos study involved 3270 elderly women randomized into two groups. One group received elemental 1200 mg/day calcium plus 800 IU/day vitamin D3, while the other received a placebo. After three years, 25 percent fewer hip fractures were found among members of the supplemented group. Using this information, plus the published costs of supplementation and HF treatment in each country, the team computed incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (the ratio of the additional cost incurred by supplementation to the number of avoided HFs.
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