Research Article
The Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency Is Similar between Thyroid Nodule and Thyroid Cancer Patients
Table 2
Distribution of vitamin D levels for each group.
| | All vitamin D assays | Nodule () | Remission () | Active () | |
| | Vitamin D group | Count (%) | Count (%) | Count (%) | - value | | 25 nmol/L | 1 (2) | 2 (4) | 0 | | | 25–75 nmol/L | 22 (52) | 18 (40) | 11 (46) | | | 75 nmol/L | 19 (45) | 25 (56) | 13 (54) | .74 |
| | Vitamin D group | | | | | | 75 nmol/L | 22 (52) | 20 (44) | 10 (42) | | | 75 nmol/L | 20 (48) | 25 (56) | 14 (58) | .67 |
| | Tandem mass spec assay | Nodule () | Remission () | Active () | |
| | Vitamin D group | Count (%) | Count (%) | Count (%) | - value | | 25 nmol/L | 0 | 1 (3) | 0 | | | 25–75 nmol/L | 17 (52) | 14 (40) | 9 (41) | | | 75 nmol/L | 16 (48) | 20 (57) | 13 (59) | .75 |
| | Vitamin D group | | | | | | 75 nmol/L | 16 (48) | 15 (43) | 8 (36) | | | 75 nmol/L | 17 (52) | 20 (57) | 14 (64) | .32 |
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