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350 Am J Clin Nutr 2006;84:350 –3. Printed in USA. © 2006 American Society for Nutrition
GLYCEMIC INDEX AND LIVER STEATOSIS 351
TABLE 1
Maternal characteristics by ethnic group
n (%) % % %
Western (reference) 105 (29) 29.5 앐 4.73
6 55 34
Turkish 79 (22) 24.3 앐 4.74 534 48 33
Moroccan 69 (19) 26.4 앐 5.44 464 385 22
Other non-Western 105 (29) 26.3 앐 5.34 304 366 36
Total 358 (100) 26.8 앐 5.3 31 45 32
1
Means compared by using ANOVA and Dunnett’s test.
2
Means compared by using logistic regression.
3
x 앐 SD (all such values).
4
P 울 0.001.
5
P 울 0.05.
6
P 울 0.01.
deficiency in an early stage of pregnancy in women of different tested with ANOVA, and Dunnett’s test was used to correct for
ethnic groups in The Hague. multiple comparisons. Serum 25(OH)D concentrations were log
transformed because of lack of fit with the normal curve. Because
TABLE 2
Mean serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations in subjects and proportions of subjects with deficiency or with concentrations under the
detection limit
n (%) n (%)
Western (reference) (n ҃ 105) 52.7 앐 21.65 8 (8) 1 (1)
Turkish (n ҃ 79) 15.2 앐 12.16 66 (84)6 17 (22)6
Moroccan (n ҃ 69) 20.1 앐 13.56 56 (81)6 3 (4)
Other non-Western (n ҃ 105) 26.3 앐 25.96 62 (59)6 9 (9)7
1
Means compared by using ANOVA and Dunnett’s test; vitamin D data were log transformed and weighted by inverse cell variances.
2
Deficiency ҃ 쏝 25 nmol 25(OH)D/L.
3
Means compared by using logistic regression.
4
Under the detection limit ҃ 쏝7 nmol 25(OH)D/L.
5
x 앐 SD (all such values).
6
P 울 0.001.
7
P 울 0.05.
July–September, 4%; October–December, 12%). The relation be- because most of them are non-Western. The inevitable exclusion
tween vitamin D and ethnicity was not confounded by age, season, of these women will have caused selection bias that is opposite to
deprivation score of the neighborhood, parity, smoking or alcohol or the 3 above-mentioned possible reasons. In total, 260 pregnant
drug use, or infectious diseases. women came later than the 12th wk of pregnancy, partly because