TABLE 6.

Univariate analysis of continuous variables associated with baseline vitamin D insufficiency (serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration <30 ng/mL) in 95 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis¹

	Subjects with vitamin D insufficiency (n = 82)		Subjects without vitamin D insufficiency (n = 13)
Continuous variables	n	Mean factor ± SE	n	Mean factor ± SE	p2
Age (y)	82	43.1 ± 1.8	13	40.2 ± 3.0	0.65
Serum LL-37 (ng/mL)	82	50.1 ± 5.6	13	45.9 ± 6.5	0.52
Creatinine (mg/dL)	81	0.87 ± 0.1	12	0.97 ± 0.1	0.023
AST/SGOT (U/L)	81	33.0 ± 3.1	12	31.4 ± 4.6	0.66
ALT/SGPT (U/L)	72	28.5 ± 2.6	11	36.5 ± 6.7	0.19
Total bilirubin (mg/dL)	80	2.4 ± 0.5	12	1.5 ± 1.0	0.51
Alkaline phosphatase (U/L)	76	111.9 ± 7.9	11	95.9 ± 15.6	0.34
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	82	13.2 ± 0.2	11	13.5 ± 0.6	0.51
Hematocrit (%)	82	38.8 ± 0.6	11	40.2 ± 1.8	0.26
Platelets (103/mm3)	79	330.1 ± 14.6	11	276.4 ± 35.6	0.18
WBCs (103/mm3)	82	8.3 ± 0.3	11	8.2 ± 0.7	0.87
Lymphocytes (103/mm3)	80	2.2 ± 0.5	11	1.9 ± 0.2	0.11

¹AST/SGOT, aspartate transaminase/serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase; ALT/SGPT, alanine transaminase/serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; WBCs, white blood cells.

²Determined by using Wilcoxon's rank sum test.

³P ≤ 0.05.