Table 1.
Serum vitamin D status among 6–24-month-old underweight and normal-weight children living in an urban slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2009–February 2012
| Underweight children (WAZ <−2·00; n 468) | Normal-weight children (WAZ ≥−1·00; n 445) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean, median or % | sd, IQR or n | Mean, median or % | sd, IQR or n | |
| Serum vitamin D (nmol/l) | ||||
| Mean and sd | 60·6 | 23·2 | 54·1 | 20·8 |
| Median and IQR | 57·5 | 45·7–73·6 | 51·8 | 39·9–65·9 |
| Range | 12·3–188·9 | 10·6–188·7 | ||
| Serum vitamin D status, % and n | ||||
| Sufficient (≥75 nmol/l) | 23·1 | 108 | 14·8 | 66 |
| Insufficient (50–74·99 nmol/l) | 42·3 | 198 | 39·6 | 176 |
| Deficient (25–49·99 nmol/l) | 31·2 | 146 | 40·0 | 178 |
| Severely deficient (<25 nmol/l) | 3·4 | 16 | 5·6 | 25 |
WAZ, weight-for-age Z-score; IQR, interquartile range.