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Table 4 Correlations among the studied cases before and after vitamin D administration

From: The influence of vitamin D administration on the clinical presentation, body mass index, and osteoprotegerin (OPG) level in a sample of Egyptian children with familial Mediterranean fever

		Before			After			Change
Variable		ZBMI	OPG	Vit. D	ZBMI	OPG	Vit. D	ZBMI	OPG	Vit. D
Colchicine daily dose	r	0.609	− 0.218	− 0.013	0.473	0.018	− 0.094	− 0.191	0.164	− 0.099
Colchicine daily dose	p	0.004*	0.295	0.952	0.035*	0.932	0.655	0.420	0.433	0.636
Colchicine TTT duration	r	0.002	0.092	− 0.546	− 0.078	− 0.291	0.033	− 0.125	− 0.230	− 0.506
Colchicine TTT duration	p	0.991	0.616	0.001*	0.712	0.106	0.860	0.553	0.205	0.003*
Duration of attack	r	0.230	− 0.265	− 0.188	0.395	0.216	0.112	− 0.165	− 0.445	− 0.175
Duration of attack	p	0.268	0.136	0.296	0.151	0.228	0.536	0.432	0.009*	0.330
OPG	r	0.036		0.559	0.262		0.150	0.043		0.306
OPG	p	0.866		0.001*	0.205		0.404	0.838		0.083
Vit. D serum level	r	− 0.227	0.559		− 0.074	0.150		− 0.170	0.306
Vit. D serum level	p	0.274	0.001*		0.724	0.404		0.417	0.083

Total = 33. ZBMI, body mass index Z scores, TTT treatment, OPG osteoprotogerin, r correlation coefficient, p < 0.05 is a significant correlation. Pearson correlation. *Significant

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