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Table 3 Result following gender

From: High burden of hypovitaminosis D among the children and adolescents in South Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Gender

Number of studies

Total participants

Range of average vitamin D level (standard deviation)

Prevalence of hypovitaminosis

Both [26,27,28,29,30, 33,34,35,36,37, 39,40,41, 43, 45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66]

36

16,434

5 to 34 ng/mL (1 to 23)

58% [95% CI: 43% to 73%]

Female only [31, 32, 38, 42, 44]

5

1799

9 to 25 ng/mL (4 to 11)

76% [95% CI: 46% to 96%]