Table 2.
Prevalence of conditional deficiencies pre-ART initiation
| Conditional Deficiency (%)
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| N | Deficiency n (%) | Vitamin A | Carotenoids | Vitamin B12 | Vitamin B6 | Vitamin D | Iron | Selenium | |
| Vitamin A | 251 | 43 (17.1) | - | 32.6 | 7.1 | 53.9 | 50.0 | 23.8 | 83.7 |
| Carotenoids | 250 | 63 (25.2) | 22.2 | - | 16.7 | 56.0 | 46.0 | 4.8 | 58.7 |
| Vitamin B12 | 244 | 22 (9.0) | 13.6 | 45.5 | - | 57.1 | 45.5 | 4.6 | 54.6 |
| Vitamin B6 | 225 | 84 (37.3) | 25.0 | 33.3 | 14.6 | - | 46.4 | 15.7 | 67.9 |
| Vitamin D | 250 | 106 (42.4) | 20.0 | 27.9 | 10.0 | 40.2 | - | 15.1 | 50.0 |
| Iron | 252 | 29 (11.7) | 34.5 | 10.3 | 3.7 | 46.4 | 55.2 | - | 58.6 |
| Selenium | 252 | 134 (53.2) | 27.1 | 28.0 | 9.3 | 46.3 | 40.1 | 13.0 | - |
The number (n) of people with an individual micronutrient deficiency, the prevalence (%) of individual micronutrient deficiency and the conditional deficiencies are presented for each micronutrient. Conditional deficiency is defined as: given a deficiency in one micronutrient, the percent of people (prevalence) with another micronutrient deficiency. Cutoffs values for deficiency are defined in Table 1.