Table 3.
Characteristics | Study Participants | |||||||||||
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All | Swedish Descent a | Middle Eastern Descent b | ||||||||||
FPG | s-25(OH)D | FPG | s-25(OH)D | FPG | s-25(OH)D | |||||||
ρc | P-value | ρc | P-value | ρc | P-value | ρc | P-value | ρc | P-value | ρc | P-value | |
s-25(OH)D level | 0.06 | 0.87 | - | - | -0.02 | 0.70 | - | - | 0.20 | 0.002 | - | - |
D vitamin deficiency (< 30nmol/L) | 0.11 | 0.0005 | - | - | 0.00 | 0.96 | - | - | 0.04 | 0.54 | - | - |
Age | 0.17 | < 0.001 | 0.32 | < 0.001 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.36 | 0.07 | 0.26 | 0.09 | 0.20 |
Body mass index | 0.18 | 0.005 | -0.13 | 0.007 | 0.18 | 0.003 | -0.20 | < 0.001 | 0.15 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.94 |
Waist circumference | 0.23 | < 0.001 | -0.04 | 0.27 | 0.18 | 0.003 | -0.19 | 0.001 | 0.14 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.63 |
a Born in Sweden to parents born in Sweden
b Born or one parent born in Turkey, Iran, or Iraq [including region of Kurdistan]
c rho (ρ) is the correlation coefficient based on Spearman analysis, used to measure the strength of the relationship
Abbreviations: FPG, fasting plasma glucose; s-25(OH)D, serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D