Research Article
Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency among Hemodialysis Patients in Palestine: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 2
Background and co-morbidities of dialysis patients according to serum 25 (OH)D levels.
| | Severely deficient <10 ng/ml | Deficient 10–30 ng/ml | Normal >30 ng/ml | P values | n = 36 | n = 106 | n = 21 |
| Age | 59.5 + 13.9 | 57.5 + 21.2 | 59.2 + 15.4 | 0.723∗ |
| Gender | Female | 21 (34.4%) | 32 (52.5%) | 8 (13.1%) | 0.011 | Male | 15 (14.7%) | 74 (72.5%) | 13 (12.7%) | |
| Hypertension | Yes | 32 (22.4%) | 93 (65%) | 18 (12.6%) | 0.94 | No | 4 (11.1%) | 13 (12.3%) | 3 (14.3%) | |
| Diabetes mellitus | Yes | 22 (26.5%) | 53 (63.9%) | 8 (9.6%) | 0.23 | No | 14 (38.9%) | 53 (50.5%) | 13 (61.9%) | |
| BMI | Obese | 16 (37.2%) | 22 (51.2%) | 5 (11.6%) | 0.02 | Nonobese | 20 (16.7%) | 84 (70.0%) | 16 (13.3%) | |
| Dialysis period | 4.21 + 3.02 | 4.66 + 3.4 | 5 + 4.8 | 0.69 |
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Kruskal–Wallis test; chi-square test. |