Statistcal Model Fitted to Examine the Association between Vitamin D and Diabetes ; Using Cross Sectional Study of NHANES Dataset from 2009 to 2010 | ||
| The Egyptian Statistical Journal | ||
| Article 4, Volume 61, Issue 2, December 2017, Pages 80-90 PDF (4.21 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/esju.2017.270119 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ghada Abo-Zaid | ||
| Faculty of Commerce- Ain Shams University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The main object of this study is to examine the association between vitamin D and diabetes . national health interview survey (NHANES) dataset has been used from 2009 to 2010 . the participants aged between 20 and 74 are included in the analysis. Logstic regression model is used. Unadjusted and adjusted models controlling by age, body mass index ( BMI),serum cotinine level , C-reactive protein (CRP),total cholesterol (TC), hight-density lipoprotein (HDL) and Low-density lipoprotein (LDL)are estimated. All analyses are stratified by gender to examine the specific-gender difference. In conclusion, there is an inverse association between vitamin D and diabetes. Gender difference have been shown significant difference | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Vitamin D - diabetes - gender difference - logistic regression model; NHANES dataset | ||
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