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

Kruskal–Wallis test; chi-square test.