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. 2017 Mar 23;9(4):319. doi: 10.3390/nu9040319

Table 2.

The association * of variables with 25(OH)D concentration (categorical variable) (N = 13997).

Variables Sufficiency Insufficiency Deficiency
N (%) N (%) OR (95%CI) p Value N (%) OR(95%CI) p Value
Gender
Boys 5874 (54.7) 1364 (57.9) REF 501 (55.7) REF
Girls 4865 (45.3) 994 (42.2) 0.96 (0.87-1.05) 0.35 399 (44.3) 1.14 (0.98-1.33) 0.10
Age
0–3 months 570 (5.3) 424 (18.0) REF 294 (32.7) REF
4–6 months 1926 (17.9) 179 (7.6) 0.14 (0.11–0.17) <0.01 57 (6.3) 0.06 (0.05–0.09) <0.01
7–12 months 1436 (13.4) 114 (4.8) 0.12 (0.10–0.15) <0.01 27 (3.0) 0.04 (0.03–0.06) <0.01
1–3 years 6466 (60.2) 1064 (45.1) 0.26 (0.22–0.31) <0.01 173 (19.2) 0.06 (0.05–0.08) <0.01
4–6 years 264 (2.5) 352 (14.9) 2.14 (1.74–2.64) <0.01 170 (18.9) 1.66 (1.29–2.14) <0.01
7–10 years 70 (0.6) 187 (7.9) 4.32 (3.18–5.87) <0.01 138 (15.3) 5.31 (3.81–7.41) <0.01
11–17 years 7 (0.1) 38 (1.6) 8.57 (3.78–19.44) <0.01 41 (4.6) 14.61 (6.41–33.27) <0.01
Season
Spring 3004 (28.0) 638 (27.0) REF 277 (30.8) REF
Summer 3864 (36.0) 796 (33.8) 0.78 (0.69–0.89) <0.01 254 (28.2) 0.49 (0.41–0.60) <0.01
Autumn 1964 (18.3) 371 (15.7) 0.80 (0.69–0.93) <0.01 116 (12.9) 0.53 (0.42–0.68) <0.01
Winter 1907 (17.7) 553 (23.5) 1.37 (1.20–1.58) <0.01 253 (28.1) 1.33 (1.09–1.63) 0.01
Visiting Type
Health Examination 7005 (65.2) 1170 (49.6) REF 324 (36.0) REF
Clinical Visiting 3734 (34.8) 1188 (50.4) 1.19 (1.07–1.33) <0.01 576 (64.0) 1.23 (1.03–1.47) 0.03

* The multiple logistic regression model includes all variables in this table.