Wellness 2013, 13:316 http://biomedcentral/1471-2458/13/Page 7 ofTable three Estimates from the population-averaged GEE model investigating associations with vitamin D levelParameter Intercept Age (years) age_RCS_lin age_RCS_S1 age_RCS_S2 age_RCS_S3 Median household earnings ( CDN 10000) income_RCS_lin income_RCS_S1 income_RCS_S2 income_RCS_S3 Percentage of immigrants percentimmi__RCS_lin percentimmi__RCS_S1 percentimmi__RCS_S2 percentimmi__RCS_S3 Percentage of aboriginal persons percentabor__RCS_lin percentabor__RCS_S1 Percentage of subjects with some post-secondary education percentuniv_RCS_lin percentuniv_RCS_S1 percentuniv_RCS_S2 percentuniv_RCS_S3 Gender Female Male Month of vitamin D testing December November October September August July June Could April March February January -1.3870 0.1357 -1.3138 -0.1319 4.7383 three.7308 0.5034 three.5073 0.6403 -3.6969 0.4483 0.0000 0.5024 0.4583 0.4593 0.4590 0.4252 0.4142 0.3959 0.4330 0.4129 0.4045 0.4108 0.0000 0.0058 0.7672 0.0042 0.7738 .0001 .0001 0.2035 .0001 0.1209 .0001 0.2751 . 7.4674 0.0000 0.1930 0.0000 .0001 . .0001 13.6596 237.8126 -842.990 1090.294 four.2690 69.0070 263.7487 509.4453 0.0014 0.0006 0.0014 0.0323 .0001 -68.5534 13868.36 15.3580 5311.648 .0001 0.0090 .0001 -7.6190 -172.823 -1122.79 3152.879 9.4844 567.4589 1547.330 1511.398 0.4218 0.7607 0.4681 0.0370 .0001 -0.4078 0.0543 -0.1270 0.0824 0.2350 0.0263 0.0793 0.0855 0.0826 0.0392 0.1092 0.3352 .0001 -0.2738 0.0015 -0.0030 0.0008 0.0422 0.0001 0.0004 0.0004 .0001 .0001 .0001 0.0823 .0001 Estimate 64.5883 Common error 2.4201 P-value .0001 All round p-value .0001 .Note: Age, median household revenue, percentage of immigrants, and percentage of subjects with some post-secondary education were coded making use of restricted cubic spline (RCS) functions with five knots situated in the 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 95th percentiles of their distribution, and percentage of aboriginal folks was coded applying the 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles of its distribution. The variables listed underneath each of your continuous variables are their corresponding spline variables (e.g., age_RCS_lin, age_RCS_S1, age_RCS_S2, and age_RCS_S3 are the 4 spline variables of age).Naugler et al. BMC Public Overall health 2013, 13:316 http://biomedcentral/1471-2458/13/Page eight ofFigure three Adjusted associations of vitamin D level (nmol/L). (A) age (reference value = 37 years); (B) median household earnings (reference value = CDN 73,264, the median); (C) percentage of people who have been not born in Canada (reference value = 22 , the median); (D) percentage of Aboriginal folks (reference value = 2 , the median); (E) percentage of folks 25 years old who had at the least some post-secondary education (reference worth = 56 , the median).BuyXantphos Pd G2 Age, median household revenue, percentage of immigrants, and percentage of subjects with some post-secondary education were coded making use of restricted cubic spline (RCS) functions with five knots located at the 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 95th percentiles of their distribution, and percentage of aboriginal folks was coded using the 5th, 50th and 95th percentiles of its distribution.Methyl 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate site Y-axis represents the difference in mean vitamin D level among people with any value of your continuous predictor (as indicated around the x-axis) and individuals together with the reference value (as indicated by the vertical dashed line).PMID:23865629 Shaded area represents the 95 confidence band. Horizontal dashed line indicates the zero difference in mean 25 hydroxyvitamin D level.somewhat unexpected.