Research Article
PTH: Redefining Reference Ranges in a Healthy Population—The Role of Interfering Factors and the Type of Laboratory Assay
Table 2
Food and behavioural habits of the enrolled population.
| | | All 108 (100%) | Females 53 (49.1%) | Males 55 (50.9%) |
| | Physical exercise (number of patients) | | | | | Yes | 84 (100.0%) | 42 (50.0%) | 42 (50.0%) | | No | 24 (100.0%) | 11 (45.8%) | 13 (54.2%) | | Sun exposure (number of patients) | | | | | <30 minutes | 35 (100.0%) | 17 (48.6%) | 18 (51.4%) | | ≥30 minutes | 73 (100%) | 36 (49.3%) | 37 (50.7%) | | Daily calcium intake (points mean value ± SD and median with range) | 5.4 ± 2.4
5.0 (0.0–11.0) | 5.2 ± 2.2
5.0 (1.0–11.0) | 5.7 ± 2.5
6.0 (0.0–11.0) | | Daily calcium intake (number of patients) | | | | | <7 points | 69 (100.0%) | 37 (53.6%) | 32 (46.4%) | | Daily calcium intake (number of patients) | | | | | ≥7 points | 39 (36.1%) | 16 (41.0%) | 23 (59.0%) |
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