Prevalence of Anti-Neu5Gc Antibodies in Patients with Hypothyroidism

Table 4

Concentration of anti-Neu5Gc IgA antibodies.

	𝑛	Mean value (𝜇g/mL)	SD	Median value (𝜇g/mL)	Minimum (𝜇g/mL)	Maximum (𝜇g/mL)	𝑃^∗
General population	50	2.3	0.8	2.0	1.3	3.5
Hypothyroidism	48	2.9	3.8	1.9	0.5	23.7	0.53024
Hashimoto	35	2.0	3.5	1.2	0.2	21.4	0.00285

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