The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Vitamin D deficiency:
This page presents a variety of statistics about Vitamin D deficiency. The term 'prevalence' of Vitamin D deficiency usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing Vitamin D deficiency at any given time. The term 'incidence' of Vitamin D deficiency refers to the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Vitamin D deficiency diagnosed each year. Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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