Association of High Calcitriol Serum Levels and Its Hydroxylation Efficiency Ratio with Disease Risk in SLE Patients with Vitamin D Deficiency

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Correlations of vitamin D metabolite serum levels and vitamin D hydroxylation efficiency ratio with clinical and renal variables in SLE patients. (a) Correlation of calcidiol serum levels and calcitriol serum levels; (b) correlation of calcidiol serum levels and urine proteins; (c) correlation of calcidiol serum levels and serum calcium; (d) correlation of serum calcium and Mex-SLEDAI; (e) correlation of calcitriol serum levels with blood lymphocyte count; (f) correlation of calcitriol serum levels and GFR; (g) correlation of calcitriol/calcidiol ratio and urine proteins; (h) correlation of GFR with the SLICC ACR-DI score. : Spearman’s correlation coefficient; GFR: glomerular filtration rate.

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