Research Article
High Prevalence of Infertility among Women with Graves’ Disease and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Table 2
Pregnancy characteristics and primary ovarian insufficiency in the women with GD and HT who reported a period of infertility and those who did not.
| History | Infertility | No infertility | value |
| Graves’ disease | 101 (52.3) | 92 (47.7) | | Number of pregnanciesa | 2.7 (1.4) | 2.9 (1.6) | NSb | Number of living childrena | 2.4 (1.4) | 2.4 (1.4) | NSb | Pregnancy losses (%) | 19 (18.8) | 20 (21.7) | NSc | Primary ovarian insufficiency (%) | 8 (7.9) | 8 (8.7) | NSc | Hashimoto’s thyroiditis | 31 (47.0) | 35 (53.0) | | Number of pregnanciesa | 2.71 (1.53) | 3.2 (1.8) | NSb | Number of living childrena | 2.26 (1.06) | 2.9 (1.9) | NSb | Pregnancy losses (%) | 7 (22.6) | 7 (20.6) | NSc | Primary ovarian insufficiency (%) | 4 (12.9) | 2 (5.7) | NSd |
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NS: not significant; values are mean ± SD; Mann-Whitney test; chi-square test; Fisher’s exact test.
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