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. 2020 Jul 18;11(2):219–226. doi: 10.1016/j.jceh.2020.07.003

Table 2.

Correlation of 25 Hydroxycholecalciferol (nmol/l) Level with Anthropometric and the Biochemical Parameters.

All the studied population Group I negative control N = 10 Group II nontreated NAFLD group model N = 11 Group III positive control group N = 10 Group IV NAFLD + vitamin D supplement N = 14
r P r P r P r P r P
Weight (gm) −0.85 <0.001 −0.24 0.51 −0.30 0.29 −0.23 0.53 0.13 0.71
Height (cm) −0.13 0.60 0.19 0.60 −0.25 0.39 −0.48 0.17 0.04 0.81
BMI (gm/cm2) −0.75 <0.001 −0.25 0.48 0.09 0.77 0.21 0.41 0.02 0.94
Hepatic index 0.85 <0.001 0.43 0.21 0.53 0.05 0.02 0.95 0.12 0.72
Insulin (μu/L) −0.73 <0.001 0.15 0.68 0.21 0.21 −0.40 0.25 −0.51 0.05
Glucose (mmol/L) −0.71 <0.001 0.64 0.05 0.26 0.38 0.05 0.89 −0.23 0.41
HOMA-IR −0.76 <0.001 0.57 0.09 0.34 0.23 −0.30 0.39 −0.52 0.01
T Chol. (mmol/L) −0.84 <0.001 0.06 0.87 −0.12 0.68 0.41 0.14 −0.06 0.87
TG (mmol/L) −0.51 <0.001 −0.23 0.53 0.23 0.42 0.20 0.58 −0.04 0.97
LDL-C (mmol/L) −0.59 <0.001 −0.46 0.18 −0.70 0.00 −0.26 0.47 −0.35 0.32
HDL-C (mmol/L) −0.57 <0.001 0.13 0.72 0.12 0.78 −0.31 0.38 −0.18 0.62
Albumin (g/dl) 0.16 0.21 −0.67 0.03 −0.38 0.18 0.47 0.18 −0.10 0.76
AST (U/L) −0.74 <0.001 0.15 0.68 0.48 0.08 0.25 0.48 −0.31 0.36
ALT (U/L) −0.79 <0.001 0.29 0.42 0.26 0.37 0.12 0.75 0.37 0.27
ALP (U/L) 0.25 0.01 0.13 0.72 0.19 0.52 −0.19 0.51 0.23 0.41
GGT (U/L) −0.83 <0.001 −0.51 0.13 0.23 0.43 −0.01 0.99 −0.46 0.15

Statistical analysis was carried out using Spearman's correlation analysis. r = Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, ∗P-value ≤0.05 is considered significant.