Discriminant analysis with selected explanatory variables to predict study participants with severe vitamin D deficiency differentiating them from those with serum levels of 10+
| Variables ordered by absolute size of correlation (pooled within-groups correlations between discriminating variables and standardised canonical discriminant functions) within function | Risk of having severe Vitamin D deficiency | |
| Age in year | 1 | Decrease |
| Hypertension | 2 | Increase |
| Male versus Female Gender | 3 | Decrease |
| Qatari Nationality versus Others | 4 | Increase |
| Diabetes | 5 | Decrease |
| Cardiovascular disease | 6 | Increase |
| Asthma | 7 | Decrease |
| Stroke | 8 | Increase |
| BMI measurement | 9 | Increase |
BMI, body mass index.