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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Clin Trials. 2019 Oct 24;87:105854. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2019.105854

Table 2:

Baseline and 1-year follow-up lab measurements, among placebo- and vitamin D-treated participants a

Cohort with baseline and 1-year measurements
Baseline in blood cohort (n=15805) Baseline in 1YR cohort (n=1660) 1-year (n=1660) Change from BL to 1-year (n=1660) Percent Change b (n=1660)
Treatment med(IQR) mean (SD) med(IQR) mean (SD) med(IQR) mean (SD) med(IQR)1 mean (CI) 2 p-value3 mean (CI)2 p-value3
25(OH)D total, LC-MS/MS, Placebo 31.0 (13.0) 30.8 (10.0) 29.2 (12.0) 29.7 (9.8) 29.2 (12.0) 29.0 (9.6) −0.9 (6.8)*** −0.7** (−1.2, −0.2) <.0001 −2.6** (−4.3, −0.8) <.0001
 [ng/mL] Vitamin D 31.0 (12.9) 30.9 (10.0) 30.0 (14.5) 29.8 (10.4) 40.3 (12.0) 41.7 (10.0) 11.1 (11.0)*** 11.9*** (11.3, 12.5) 45.2*** (42.1, 48.4)
25(OH)D3, LC-MS/MS Placebo 30.0 (12.0) 30.2 (10.2) 29.2 (12.8) 29.0 (9.9) 28.3 (12.0) 28.2 (9.7) −0.9 (6.8)*** −0.9*** (−1.3, −0.4) <.0001 −3.6*** (−5.3, −1.9) <.0001
 [ng/mL] Vitamin D 30.0 (13.0) 30.4 (10.2) 29.2 (13.7) 29.3 (10.6) 40.3 (11.9) 41.4 (10.1) 11.1 (10.3)*** 12.1*** (11.5, 12.7) 47.4*** (44.0, 50.9)
25(OH)D total, CMIA Placebo 31.1 (10.3) 31.8 (8.5) 30.5 (11.4) 31.4 (8.3) 30.2 (10.1) 30.7 (8.0) −0.8 (5.1)*** −0.7*** (−1.0, −0.3) <.0001 −2.0** (−3.1, −0.8) <.0001
 [ng/mL] Vitamin D 31.1 (10.2) 31.9 (8.7) 30.8 (10.8) 31.6 (9.9) 41.4 (12.3) 43.1 (10.6) 10.8 (9.7)*** 11.6 *** (11.0, 12.1) 38.5 *** (36.4, 40.7)
Calcium [mg/dL] Placebo 9.4 (0.5) 9.4 (0.4) 9.5 (0.7) 9.6 (0.6) 9.5 (0.6) 9.5 (0.6) 0 (0.6) 0 (−0.05,0.03) 0.790 −0.1 (−0.5, 0.3) 0.836
Vitamin D 9.4 (0.5) 9.4 (0.4) 9.5 (0.7) 9.6 (0.5) 9.5 (0.7) 9.6 (0.5) 0 (0.6) 0 (−0.04,0.04) 0 (−0.4, 0.4)
iPTH [pg/ml] Placebo 35.0 (21.0) 39.3 (18.6) 40.7 (27.8) 44.7 (23.6) 40.7 (25.1) 44.9 (24.5) 1.0 (21.3) 0.3 (−1.2, 1.7) <.0001 0.1 (−4.5, 4.9) 0.004
Vitamin D 35.0 (20.0) 39.2 (19.2) 38.6 (25.7) 43.8 (25.6) 34.5 (21.6) 39.1 (22.6) −3.1 (17.5)*** −4.8*** (−6.1, −3.4) −8.6*** (−12.5, −4.6)
a

Abbreviations: SD=standard deviation: IQR=interquartile range; CI=95% confidence interval; 25(OH)D=25-hydroxivitamin D; LC-MS/MS= liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry; CMIA=chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay.

b

Percent change reported as geometric mean, calculated based on log-transformed data

1

Nonparametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test for comparison between baseline and 1-year median

2

Paired t-test for comparison between baseline and 1-year mean

3

Two sample t-test for comparison of mean change between treatment groups

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001