Serum 25(OH)D in 1250 pulmonary TB patients and 355 neighbourhood controls by categories of sex, age, body mass index, pulmonary TB and HIV status and elevated acute phase reactants1.

1Pulmonary TB status was based on culture, except where culture data were not available. For 355 consecutively recruited sputum positive TB patients a control was randomly selected among individuals with same sex and age from the neighbourhood. Serum 25(OH)D data were available on 1570, but n may sum up to less, due to missing data.2Based on sex-specific percentiles among the neighbourhood controls.