27 April 2026 : Clinical Research
Retrospective Study of Serum Vitamin D Levels and Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease in 222 Children and Adolescents Aged 6-18 Years With Obesity
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ABCDEFG 1*, Yavuz Özer ABE 2, Yeliz Kaşko Arıcı ACDE 3
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.952489
Med Sci Monit 2026; 32:e952489
Table 6 Vitamin D status categories according to hepatic steatosis (HS) grade.
| HS grade | Vitamin D | P | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deficiency (<12 ng/mL) | Insufficiency (12–20 ng/mL) | Normal (>20 ng/mL) | Total | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| 0 | 17 | 26.2 | 33 | 50.8 | 15 | 23.1 | 65 | 100.0 | 0.147a |
| 1 | 20 | 38.5 | 17 | 32.7 | 15 | 28.8 | 52 | 100.0 | |
| 2 | 11 | 42.3 | 7 | 26.9 | 8 | 30.8 | 26 | 100.0 | |
| 3 | 1 | 20.0 | 4 | 80.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 100.0 | |
| Total | 49 | 33.1 | 61 | 41.2 | 38 | 25.7 | 148 | 100.0 | |
| a Fisher-Freeman-Halton test. | |||||||||