Research Article
Adequate Vitamin D Intake but Low Serum Levels in Pediatric Asthma Patients: A Pilot Study, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Table 2
Comparison of the study participants and healthy children in the same city and season.
| | | Asthma study participants in summer | Healthy local children in summer |
| | Age in years, (%) | 4–8 | 4 (20%) | 2–5 | 788 (42) | | 9–12 | 12 (60%) | 5–9 | 727 (39) | | 13–18 | 4 (20%) | 9–13 | 347 (19%) |
| Ethnicity, (%)
| White | 13 (65%) | White | 1413 (77%) | | Asian | 2 (10%) | Asian | 163 (9%) | | African | 3 (15%) | African | 26 (1%) | | Others | 2 (10%) | Others | 271 (13%) |
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