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. 2021 Oct 25;11:20989. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-00344-0

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Seasonal variation of serum 25(OH)D levels and its effect on the sampling of relapse/remission patients. The scatter-plot (top-left panel) illustrates the seasonal variation in serum 25(OH)D levels among all MS patients by sampling month and accompanied by the proportion sampled during relapse and of male sex for each month below (bottom-left panels). A smoothed fitted line (dotted, loess method) with 95% confidence interval (grey interval) are plotted along with fitted periodic regression model of sin(2πx/12) + cos(2πx/12) (solid). The distribution of both unadjusted and seasonal variation adjusted serum 25(OH)D levels are illustrated on the right panels (dot plots) along the reported significance between groups as determined by Student t-test.