highly significantp < 0.001
There was however, a highly significant difference in the distribution of diagnosis groups across study years ( p < 0.001).
There was however, a highly significant difference in the distribution of diagnosis groups across study years ( p < 0.001).
Gender showed a marginally significant effect, with males having slightly lower odds of deficiency compared with females (OR ≈ 0.80; p ≈ 0.04–0.05).
Although the Mann–Whitney U test indicated a strong trend towards significance ( p = 0.057), the difference did not reach the conventional threshold of statistical significance ( p < 0.05).