Table 4 Correlation between BMI-for-age and vitamin D status
Boys (n = 180) | Girls (n = 222) | Total (n = 402) | ||||||||||
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Vitamin D status | Vitamin D status | Vitamin D status | ||||||||||
BMI-for-age Status | *Low | **Normal | *Low | **Normal | *Low | **Normal | ||||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Severe thinness | 3 | 2.5 | 2 | 3.3 | 1 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 1.2 | 2 | 3.4 |
Thinness | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8.2 | 10 | 5.8 | 4 | 8.0 | 20 | 5.8 | 5 | 8.6 |
Normal | 54 | 45.4 | 34 | 55.7 | 109 | 63.4 | 36 | 72.0 | 194 | 56.4 | 39 | 67.2 |
Overweight | 20 | 16.8 | 11 | 18.0 | 34 | 19.8 | 7 | 14.0 | 66 | 19.2 | 6 | 10.3 |
Obese | 36 | 30.3 | 9 | 14.8 | 18 | 10.5 | 3 | 6.0 | 60 | 17.4 | 6 | 10.3 |
x2 (df = 1) | 5.958 | 1.160 | 5.832 | |||||||||
p-trend (Monte Carlo) | 0.016 | 0.330 | 0.013 | |||||||||