Low serum vitamin-D status is associated with high prevalence and early onset of type-1 diabetes mellitus in Kuwaiti children

Table 2 The vitamin-D status in Kuwaiti T1DM patients and controls (according to The Endocrine Society Guidelines; [19])

Sub-groups	T1DM patients (N = 216)	Controls (N = 204)	p-value	OR^a	CI^b
Deficient	182 (84 %)	158 (77 %)	0.046	1.66	1.02–2.701
Insufficient	31 (15 %)	29 (14 %)	0.93	0.977	0.565–1.689
Sufficient	3 (1 %)	11 (5 %)	0.027	0.239	0.0658–0.872
Defficient + Insufficient	213 (99 %)	187 (92 %)	0.027	4.176	1.147–15.202

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