Table 1.
Distribution of rural elderly women according to their daily sun exposure routine and 25(OH) D status (n=236)
| Vitamin D status | Daily sun exposure routine |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≤5 min/day, n (%) | 5-15 min/day, n (%) | 15-30 min/day, n (%) | 31-60 min, n (%) | 61-90 min/day, n (%) | Total, n (%) | |
| Sufficient | 16 (30.2) | 25 (48.1) | 27 (44.3) | 27 (65.8) | 15 (51.7) | 110 (46.5) |
| Insufficient | 9 (17.0) | 11 (21.1) | 14 (22.9) | 5 (12.3) | 7 (24.2) | 46 (19.5) |
| Deficient | 28 (52.8) | 16 (30.8) | 20 (32.8) | 9 (21.9) | 7 (24.1) | 80 (34.0) |
| Total | 53 (100) | 52 (100) | 61 (100) | 41 (100) | 29 (100) | 236 (100) |