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Published in final edited form as: J Natl Med Assoc. 2009 Apr;101(4):349–354. doi: 10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30883-x

Table 4.

Comparison of Vitamin D Status in African Americans

	African Americans (n = 30)
	Normal (n = 7)	Deficient (n = 23)
Characteristics	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	p
25-hydroxyvitamin D (ng/ml)	26.53 (9.46)	15.37 (2.8)	< .0001
Age, y	80.67 (9.1)	71.18 (6.3)	.004
Education, y	15.29 (2.9)	14.08 (2.5)	.289
Weight, lbs	155.43 (38.4)	171.48 (28.6)	.240
Short blessed test	2.29 (2.4)	11.78 (7.9)	.004
Mini-Mental State Exam	29.14 (0.9)	24.65 (4.1)	.008
Physical performance test	29.33 (1.6)	26.43 (3.7)	.080
Bone mineral density, hip	1.01 (0.09)	.83 (0.10)	.0001
Bone mineral density, spine	1.13 (0.10)	1.01 (0.22)	.161
t score hip	-0.414 (0.78)	-1.22 (0.69)	.014
t score spine	-0.061 (0.80)	-0.607 (1.7)	.417
Active mood disorder^a	0 {0%}	7 {30%}	.143
Depression features score	0.14 (0.38)	1.22 (1.6)	.086

^a

Reflects number of subjects and percentage of each group in { }.