Table 1.

Descriptive Characteristics and Correlation with each time of recording of Vitamin D.

Variables	T0	T3	T6
Age	60.62 ± 6.94
	rp = 0.115	rp = −0.052	rp = −0.037
Gender  Male  Female	93 (71.5%) 37 (28.5%)
	rs = −0.263	rs = −0.116	rs = −0.126
Occupation  Farmer/Labourer/field  Skilled worker/priest  Shopkeeper/Service/business  Professional  Housewife/household	47 (36.2%) 5 (3.8%) 49 (37.7%) 2 (1.5%) 27 (20.8%)
	rs = −0.388	rs = −0.085	rs = −0.096
Sun Exposure  No  Yes	62 (47.7%) 68 (52.3%)
	rs = 0.223	rs = 0.037	rs = 0.045
Eating Habit  Vegetarian  Non Vegetarian	90 (69.2%) 40 (30.8%)
	rs = −0.012	rs = −0.053	rs = −0.037
Address  Rural  Urban	71 (54.6%) 59 (45.4%)
	rs = −0.179	rs = 0.013	rs = 0.003
Old Denture  No  Yes	77 (59.2%) 53 (40.8%)
	rs = 0.244	rs = 0.053	rs = 0.105
Serum D (ng/mL)	16.09 ± 5.62	33.47 ± 10.83	31.31 ± 9.12
USG (mm)	6.53 ± 1.29	7.39 ± 1.21	7.59 ± 1.05
	rp = 0.611	rp = 0.313	rp = 0.419
sEMG (μV)	151.21 ± 51.65	223.15 ± 52.81	248.91 ± 49.39
	rp = 0.778	rp = 0.424	rp = 0.583
Vitamin D Status  Severely Deficient  Insufficient  Deficient  Sufficient	12 (9.2%) 94 (72.3%) 21 (16.2%) 3 (2.3%)	0 (0.0%) 11 (8.5%) 38 (29.2%) 81 (62.3%)	0 (0.0%) 11 (8.5%) 42 (32.3%) 77 (59.2%)
	rs = 0.786	rs = 0.856	rs = 0.871

Mean ± standard deviation is represented for continuous variables and N (%) are depicted for categorical variables. ‘r_p’ means Pearson correlation and ‘r_s’ means spearman correlation.