borderline significancep = 0.047
The Dwass-Steel-Critchlow-Fligner Pairwise analyses carried out concerning three MEQ groups revealed significantly higher scores at PTH levels in MEQ-E subjects compared to MEQ-M and MEQ-I (in both cases, p < 0.001), with only a borderline significance at vitamin D levels between MEQ-E and MEQ-M ( p = 0.047).