Prevalence of Anti-Neu5Gc Antibodies in Patients with Hypothyroidism

Table 3

Concentration of anti-Neu5Gc IgM antibodies.

	𝑛	Mean value (𝜇g/mL)	SD	Median value (𝜇g/mL)	Minimum (𝜇g/mL)	Maximum (𝜇g/mL)	𝑃^∗
General population	50	2.5	2.7	1.6	1	7.9
Hypothyroidism	48	3.3	2.8	1.3	2.2	12.0	0.00285
Hashimoto	35	5.0	3.1	0.1	4.2	12.6	0.00080

∗derived from Mann-Whitney test (two tailed), when the group was compared with the general population group.