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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2017 Jun 14;87(3):242–248. doi: 10.1111/cen.13374

Table 2.

Prevalence of 25(OH)D Deficiency: < 50 nmol/L (20 ng/mL); and Deficiency + Insufficiency: < 75 nmol/L (30 ng/mL) in the DHS1 and DHS2, unadjusted data

DHS1 DHS2


< 50 nmol/l < 75 nmol/l < 50 nmol/l < 75 nmol/l


Overall 1240 (60.6%) 1791 (87.6%) 1358 (66.4%) 1845 (90.2%)

Black 838 (81.4%) 1000 (97.2%) 834 (69.8%) 997 (96.9%)

White 204 (29.9%) 485 (71.1%) 297 (43.5%) 533 (78.2%)

Hispanic 175 (59.7%) 273 (93.2%) 200 (68.3%) 278 (94.9%)

Men 426 (50.1%) 716 (84.1%) 524 (61.6%) 759 (89.2%)

 Black 267 (70.6%) 357 (94.4%) 293 (77.5%) 368 (97.4%)

 White 82 (25.7%) 222 (69.6%) 132 (41.4%) 247 (77.4%)

 Hispanic 61 (47.7%) 116 (90.6%) 79 (61.7%) 120 (93.8%)

Women 814 (68.2%) 1075 (90.0%) 834 (69.8%) 1086 (91.0%)

 Black 571 (87.7%) 643 (98.8%) 541 (83.1%) 629 (96.6%)

 White 122 (33.6%) 263 (72.5%) 165 (45.5%) 286 (78.8%)

 Hispanic 114 (69.1%) 157 (95.2%) 121 (73.3%) 158 (95.8%)

Age (years)

 < 40 486 (61.5%) 698 (88.4%) 225 (70.3%) 293 (91.6%)

 41–50 411 (61.4%) 577 (86.2%) 450 (70.8%) 587 (92.3%)

 51–60 283 (58.7%) 421 (87.3%) 422 (63.5%) 594 (89.3%)

 > 60 60 (57.7%) 95 (91.3%) 261 (61.6%) 371 (87.5%)

Body Mass Index (kg/m2)

 < 25 254 (46.1%) 430 (78.0%) 214 (56.9%) 304 (80.9%)

 25–30 373 (56.2%) 576 (86.7%) 389 (61.3%) 565 (89.0%)

 ≥ 30 602 (73.7%) 772 (94.5%) 750 (73%) 970 (94.5%)