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Increase of vitamin D assays prescriptions and associated factors: a population-based cohort study

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Abstract A worldwide increase in the frequency of testing for serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels has been observed over the last years. Our aim was to measure the evolution in the number of vitamin D assays performed in France from 2008 to 2013 and to investigate some of the drivers that may explain this increase. Patients within the representative 1/97th sample of the French health insurance system reimbursement database ( EGBS database) who had at least one 25OHD or 1-25(OH) 2 D assay between 2008 and 2013 were included. Trends over time in number of vitamin D assays were analysed globally and per year in a multivariable Poisson regression model with GEE. Among the 639,163 patients of the EGBS database, 118,509 (18.5%) had at least one vitamin D assay over the 6-year study period. Among the individuals tested, 52.1% had only one test. The number of vitamin D assays (25OHD or 1-25(OH) 2 D) increased 7.5-fold from 9,620 in 2008 to 81,641 in 2013. This study confirms the rapid and dramatic increase in vitamin D assays prescriptions and shows that this is mostly due to a global increase of the proportion of patients tested rather than an increase in repetition of tests in some individual patients.
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hal-04329103 , version 1 (23-01-2024)

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Pascal Caillet, Anne Goyer-Joos, Marie Viprey, Anne-Marie Schott. Increase of vitamin D assays prescriptions and associated factors: a population-based cohort study. Scientific Reports, 2017, 7 (1), pp.10361. ⟨10.1038/s41598-017-10263-8⟩. ⟨hal-04329103⟩
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