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Table 4 Percentages and multivariate adjusted odds ratio (and 95% CIs) for infant vitamin D supplementation in infants receiving greater than 50% of feeds from breast milk by select characteristics (n = 420)

From: Very high vitamin D supplementation rates among infants aged 2 months in Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

Characteristic

% (n)

OR (95% CI)

p-value

Maternal Age

   < 31 y

87.6 (134)

1.00

 

   ≥31 y

89.9 (286)

1.28 (0.65, 2.50)

0.479

Baby's ethnicity

   European

88.9 (160)

1.00

 

   Chinese

89.6 (129)

1.34 (0.62, 2.86)

0.456

   Other

89.1 (131)

1.32 (0.62, 2.80)

0.469

Annual family income

   <$40,000

83.1 (74)

1.00

 

   $40,000-80,000

92.2 (95)

2.51 (0.98, 6.41)

0.054

   >$80,000

91.4 (170)

2.24 (0.94, 5.30)

0.068

   Non-responder1

87.1 (81)

1.35 (0.58, 3.14)

0.488

Education

Less than completed trade/vocational

training and college/university

87.0 (87)

1.00

 

   Completed trade/vocational training and college/university

89.8 (333)

0.99 (0.48, 2.04)

0.984

Parity

   Primipara

90.5 (219)

1.00

 

   Multipara

87.8 (201)

0.69 (0.37, 1.29)

0.244

  1. Note: CI confidence interval, OR multivariate adjusted odds ratio
  2. 1Do not know and do not want to say