Table 2 Vitamin D deficiency rates by diagnostic group, ethnicity, and gender
From: Vitamin D status of psychiatric inpatients in New Zealand’s Waikato region
Group | count by Vitamin D level(nM) | % less than (nM) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
all | >50 | 25–50 | <25 | 50 | 25 | |
Entire sample | 102 | 27 | 56 | 19 | 73.5 | 18.6 |
Schizophrenia spectrum | 49 | 7 | 29 | 13 | 85.7 | 26.5 |
Maori | 34 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 91.2 | 32.3 |
male | 20 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 85.0 | 30.0 |
female | 14 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 100 | 35.7 |
non-Maori | 15 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 73.3 | 13.3 |
male | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 60.0 | 20.0 |
female | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 100 | 0.0 |
Other diagnoses | 53 | 20 | 27 | 6 | 62.3 | 11.3 |
Maori | 17 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 76.5 | 17.6 |
male | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 70.0 | 20.0 |
female | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 85.7 | 14.3 |
non-Maori | 36 | 16 | 17 | 3 | 55.6 | 8.3 |
male | 16 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 62.5 | 6.3 |
female | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 50.0 | 10.0 |