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. 2020 May 4;20:123. doi: 10.1186/s12890-020-1148-4

Table 4.

Imaging characteristicsa

Vitamin D Deficient Vitamin D Sufficient p value (Univariate analysis) Vitamin D Deficiency Effect Estimate (SE)d p value (Multivariable regression)
nb 549 970
% emphysema 5.80 (8.33) 7.33 (9.48) 0.002 0.76 (0.49) 0.12
15th percentile of lung density histogram (+ 1000 HU) 85.70 (32.25) 76.81 (28.45) < 0.001 −2.1 (1.42) 0.14
% gas trapping 21.47 (18.76) 24.99 (19.20) 0.002 1.81 (1.05) 0.085
Segmental airway wall thickness 1.08 (0.23) 1.05 (0.22) 0.019 0.027 (0.012) 0.021
Pi10c 2.44 (0.63) 2.37 (0.59) 0.053 0.058 (0.036) 0.11
Segmental wall area % 52.03 (8.65) 51.07 (8.21) 0.040 0.81 (0.48) 0.092
Change in % emphysema 0.88 (3.87) 0.56 (4.21) 0.17 0.36 (0.25) 0.16
Change in % gas trapping 3.44 (9.89) 2.01 (9.09) 0.024 0.73 (0.64) 0.26
Change in segmental airway wall thickness −0.00 (0.13) 0.01 (0.11) 0.12 −0.0052 (0.0077) 0.50

Mean (SD) or N(%) are shown

aEach row represents the outcome of a separate regression model

bCT scan data was available for 1519 subjects

csquare root of wall area of hypothetical airway with 10 mm internal perimeter

dCovariates in linear regression models include age, race, gender, BMI, current smoking status, and scanner model