Vitamin D status P*
  deficient or
insufficient
sufficient
Number 20 39  
Age (years) 1.3 (0.6,2.5) 1.1 (0.8,2.8) 0.2
Sex (boys:girls) 13:7 19:20 0.4
Race (Caucasion:African American:Asian:other) 7:6:5:2 15:14:4:6 0.7
Height or length SD score -0.1 (-1.6,1.0) -0.5 (-1.7,1.0) 0.2
Weight SD score 0.0 (-2.4,1.1) -0.9 (-2.7,0.4) 0.2
Serum (n= 59)      
  25-hydroxyvitamin D (nmol/L) 62 (42,70) 105 (62,85) <0.001
  calcium (mmol/L) 2.5 (2.4, 2.6) 2.5 (2.5, 2.6) 0.4
  phosphate (mmol/L) 1.6 (1.4,1.9) 1.6 (1.3,1.8) 0.4
  magnesium (mmol/L) 0.9 (0.78,0.98) 0.86 (0.78,0.9) 0.5
  alkaline phosphatase (IU/L) 245 (170,565) 223 (173,1258) 0.5
  intact PTH (pmol/L) 2 (0.3,7.3) 1.2 (0.3,4.1) 0.3
Urine (n= 58)      
  calcium-to-creatinine (mg/mg) 0.18 (0.07,0.53) 0.15 (0.04,0.42) 0.4
  phosphate-to-creatinine (mg/mg) 1.23 (0.27,2.83) 0.99 (0.47,2.69) 0.8
  calcium-phosphate (mg/mg) 7.0 (2, 20.97) 7.7 (2.89,33.51) 0.3
Vitamin D deficient is 25-hydroxyvitamin D <50 nmol/L, insufficient is >50 and <80,
and sufficient is >80.
Data are median (5th percentile, 95th percentile)
*By Mann-Whitney U test or Chi-square analysis
Table 3: Comparison of Vitamin D Insufficient and Vitamin D Sufficient Subjects