Journal: BMC Medicine
Article Title: Prevalence and predictors of vitamin D deficiency in young African children
doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-01985-8
Figure Lengend Snippet: Prevalence of vitamin D categories by country ( a ), age categories ( b ), sex ( c ), season ( d ), stunting ( e ), underweight ( f ), wasting ( g ), inflammation ( h ), malaria status ( i ), and vitamin D binding protein (DBP) haplotypes ( j ) and variants ( k ). Season was based on 3 monthly intervals. In South Africa the seasons are summer, autumn, winter and spring, in Uganda and Kenya there are two rainy seasons and in Burkina Faso and The Gambia a single rainy season. Stunting was defined as height-for-age Z score < − 2; underweight as weight-for-age Z score < − 2, wasting as weight-for-height Z score < − 2; inflammation as CRP > 5 mg/L or ACT > 0.6 g/L (ACT, but not CRP was available for The Gambia); malaria as presence of P. falciparum parasites on blood film. Prtest (STATA) was used to test the significance in the difference in the proportion of low vitamin status (25(OH)D levels < 50 or 50–75 nmol/L) within each category with the first category as the reference
Article Snippet: Prtest (STATA) was used to test the significance in the difference in the proportion of low vitamin status (25(OH)D levels < 50 or 50–75 nmol/L) within each category with the first category as the reference
Techniques: Binding Assay