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Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 Nov 6;18(5):1070–1081.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2019.10.048

Table 4.

Clinical and demographic predictors of abnormal nutrient values*

Ferritin Transferrin Folate Vitamin A Vitamin D PTH
Surgery type:
 Gastric Bypass 2.88 (1.57, 5.26) 3.76 (1.19, 11.9) 0.49 (0.21, 1.13) 4.57 (1.91, 10.9) 1.93 (0.99, 3.77) 5.91 (2.03, 17.2)
 Sleeve Gastrectomy (reference) 1.0
p=0.001
1.0
p=0.008
1.0
p=0.15
1.0
p=0.0005
1.0
p=0.06
1.0
P=0.0005
Visit:
 Year 1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Year 2 2.10 (1.12, 3.94) 2.14 (0.38, 12.0) 0.95 (0.34, 2.65) 1.64 (0.65, 4.12) 0.95 (0.48, 1.90) 1.33 (0.46, 3.86)
 Year 3 2.66 (1.27, 5.57) 4.21 (0.74, 23.8) 1.08 (0.30, 3.90) 1.42 (0.53, 3.82) 0.70 (0.31, 1.62) 1.93 (0.61, 6.04)
 Year 4 4.39 (2.09, 9.22) 4.68 (0.85, 26.0) 0.40 (0.08, 2.07) 1.69 (0.59, 4.84) 0.77 (0.36, 1.69) 2.07 (0.64, 6.64)
 Year 5 4.94 (2.36, 10.3)
p<.0001
5.56 (1.05, 29.5)
p=0.01
0.19 (0.03, 1.28)
p=0.009
1.65 (0.51, 5.39)
p=0.61
0.87 (0.39, 1.92)
p=0.68
2.38 (0.75, 7.55)
p=0.31
Sex:
 Female 1.47 (0.80, 2.68) 3.58 (0.85, 15.1) 0.68 (0.28, 1.67) 1.07 (0.53, 2.15) 0.73 (0.43, 1.26) 1.90 (0.79, 4.97)
 Male (reference) 1.0
p=0.22
1.0
p=0.08
1.0
p=0.44
1.0
p=0.86
1.0
p=0.26
1.0
p=0.13
Race:
 Black 1.07 (0.52, 2.17) 0.55 (0.15, 2.02) 0.33 (0.09, 1.27) 2.47 (1.11, 5.51) 4.12 (2.04, 8.34) 2.03 (0.74, 5.56)
 Other 1.07 (0.38, 2.98) 0.51 (0.12, 2.13) 2.03 (0.55, 7.53) 1.42 (0.29, 6.95) 1.35 (0.31, 5.95) 1.78 (0.24, 12.9)
 White (reference) 1.0
p=0.97
1.0
p=0.30
1.0
p=0.045
1.0
p=0.06
1.0
P=0.0002
1.0
p=0.29
Education:
 HS graduate 0.74 (0.30, 1.82) 1.92 (0.12, 31.8) 1.23 (0.20, 7.46) 0.87 (0.16, 4.79) 1.75 (0.56, 5.41) 0.60 (0.12, 2.90)
 College 0.92 (0.38, 2.26) 4.26 (0.29, 63.5) 0.93 (0.19, 4.55) 2.05 (0.41,10.1) 1.26 (0.44, 3.59) 0.82 (0.21, 3.26)
 College graduate 0.66 (0.25, 1.76) 3.14 (0.20, 50.5) 0.43 (0.06, 3.07) 0.60 (0.09, 3.88) 1.27 (0.39, 4.14) 0.33 (0.06, 1.94)
 <High school (reference) 1.0
p=0.63
1.0
p=0.19
1.0
p=0.33
1.0
p=0.04
1.0
p=0.59
1.0
p=0.30
Weight change (+5 kg/y) 1.08 (0.99, 1.17)
p=0.08
1.01 (0.86, 1.20)
p=0.87
0.83 (0.73, 0.94)
p=0.01
0.92 (0.82, 1.02)
p=0.12
1.14 (1.04, 1.25)
p=0.005
1.08 (0.93, 1.25)
p=0.34
Acid suppression 1.19 (0.63, 2.27)
p=0.59
0.51 (0.13, 1.92)
p=0.24
NA NA NA NA
hsCRP 0.47 (0.33, 0.68)
p=0.0006
0.80 (0.45, 1.41)
p=0.39
NA NA NA NA
Multivitamin supplements/wk:
 <7 1.02 (0.52, 1.96) 0.88 (0.33, 2.34) 0.87 (0.30, 2.51) 0.97 (0.38, 2.47) 0.49 (0.23, 1.02) 0.80 (0.19, 3.37)
 7-14 0.76 (0.43, 1.34) 0.93 (0.36, 2.42) 0.61 (0.23, 1.66) 0.87 (0.38, 2.02) 0.38 (0.19, 0.74) 1.01 (0.27, 3.75)
 14+ 0.51 (0.24, 1.07) 0.63 (0.16, 2.59) 0.73 (0.20, 2.68) 0.73 (0.28, 1.91) 0.38 (0.16, 0.91) 0.68 (0.16, 2.82)
 0 (reference) 1.0
p=0.11
1.0
p=0.77
1.0
p=0.66
1.0
p=0.85
1.0
p=0.004
1.0
p=0.71
Vitamin D supplements/wk: NA NA NA NA
 <7 0.47 (0.21, 1.04) 0.38 (0.10, 1.37)
 7+ 0.50 (0.26, 0.95) 0.93 (0.27, 3.25)
 0 (reference) 1.0
p=0.01
1.0
p=0.15
Vitamin B12 supplements/wk: NA NA NA NA NA NA
 <7
 7+
 0 (reference)
Calcium supplements/wk: NA NA NA NA NA
 <7 0.38 (0.02, 5.89)
 7-14 1.19 (0.37, 3.83)
 14+ 0.91 (0.22, 3.72)
 0 (reference) 1.0
p=0.45
*

P-values reflect test for overall significance of each variable.