Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette

Table 2 Spearman’s correlation coefficient of25-OH VD with different anthropometric and laboratory variables

From: Lipid profile of childhood cancer survivors and the effects of vitamin D supplementation: a prospective study

	R	B co-efficient	P value
Age on study	0.390	−0.70	0.005*
Weight	−0.353	−0.145	0.007*
Height	−0.236	0.035	0.053
BMI	−0.370	−0.40	0.005*
PTH	0.196	0. 030	0.35
TC	−0.299	−0.021	0.08
TG	−0.163	−0.023	0.34
HDL-C	0.172	0.010	0.39
LDL-C	−0.152	−0.022	0.12

BMI body mass index, PTH parathyroid hormone, 25OH-VD 25-hydroxyvitamin D, TC total cholesterol, TG triglycerides, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, HDL-C high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol
*P < 0.05 is of significance

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