21.07.2016 Views

Vitamin D and Health

SACN_Vitamin_D_and_Health_report

SACN_Vitamin_D_and_Health_report

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Table 21: Scotl<strong>and</strong> - adults <strong>and</strong> children, by age <strong>and</strong> sex (4 years <strong>and</strong> over)<br />

National Diet <strong>and</strong> Nutrition Survey 2008/09-2011/12 Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />

Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D<br />

(nmol/L)<br />

Sex <strong>and</strong> age group (years) a<br />

Boys Men Girls Women Total<br />

11-18 19-64 65+ 11-18 19-64 65+ 4-10 11-18 19-64 65+<br />

Mean 38.0 39.9 [43.4] 36.5 40.2 40.2 47.0 37.3 40.1 41.5<br />

Median 30.6 35.7 [40.5] 36.5 33.7 35.2 44.9 32.8 34.7 38.9<br />

SD 22.63 22.77 [22.67] 15.55 24.64 23.11 14.82 19.43 23.68 22.79<br />

Upper 2.5 th percentile 100.0 91.9 [90.6] 72.8 104.0 104.5 81.9 86.9 91.9 90.6<br />

Lower 2.5 th percentile 7.1 7.1 [12.4] 7.1 7.1 7.1 16.6 7.1 7.1 7.1<br />

% below 25 nmol/L e 29.0 31.7 [26.3] 23.0 33.3 31.6 9.2 26.1 32.5 29.4<br />

Bases (unweighted) 73 137 [34] 64 182 66 58 137 319 100<br />

273

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!