Association of Vitamin D Deficiency and Newly Diagnosed Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Table 2

Vitamin D levels among pulmonary tuberculosis patients () and controls ().

Vitamin D levels		Tuberculosis patients (%)	Healthy controls (%)	value
Deficient (< 20 ng/ml)	Present	27 (54%)	13 (26%)	0.004
	Absent	23 (46%)	37 (74%)
Insufficient (20-30 ng/ml)	Present	14 (28%)	20 (40%)	0.205
	Absent	36 (72%)	30 (60%)
Sufficient (> 30 ng/ml)	Present	9 (18%)	17 (34%)	0.068
	Absent	41 (82%)	33 (66%)

Chi-squared test, (statistical significance).