Vitamin D status and viral response to therapy in hepatitis C infected children

Table 5 Mean ± SD values of bone mineral density in relation to Vitamin D status in the studied groups

	Vitamin D status			Suff vs Insuff	Suff vs Def	Insuff vs Def	Total
	Sufficient (n = 14)	Insufficient (n = 26)	Deficient (n = 20)				P value
Head	0.921 ± 0.343	1.237 ± 0.415	1.267 ± 0.317	0.0201	0.0051	0.790	0.0182
Arm	1.03 ± 0.901	0.879 ± 0.259	1.065 ± 1.325	0.428	0.931	0.487	0.759
Leg	0.873 ± 0.28	1.001 ± 0.321	0.978 ± 0.291	0.341	0.428	0.798	0.067
Rib	0.856 ± 0.34	0.749 ± 0.358	0.662 ± 0.353	0.365	0.0431	0.910	0.637
Pelvis	0.996 ± 0.234	0.895 ± 0.219	0.748 ± 0.107	0.990	0.051	0.469	0.738
L- Spine	0.959 ± 0.115	0.838 ± 0.24	0.716 ± 0.258	0.808	0.0591	0.766	0.892
Total	0.918 ± 0.444	0.897 ± 0.11	0.812 ± 0.28	0.863	0.398	0.340	0.596
Z score	1.121 ± 0.577	0.927 ± 0.25	-1.875 ± 0.441	0.619	0.0421	0.431	0.493

¹Significance between groups;

²Significance total vs control. BMD: Bone mineral density (g/cm²). Suff: Sufficient; Insuff: Insufficient; Def: Deficient.