Research Article
Predictive Factors of Development of Graves’ Ophthalmopathy for Patients with Juvenile Graves’ Disease
Table 2
Comparison of clinical findings and environmental risk factors between the groups with and without GO.
| Factor | GO (−) | GO (+) | value |
| Thyroid disease in family | 38.0 (35) | 68.4 (26) | 0.002 | Loss of weight | 56.5 (52) | 60.5 (23) | 0.670 | Drug-induced hypothyroidism | 8.7 (8) | 18.4 (7) | 0.114 | Thyroid gland volume (clinical assessment) | | | | I° | 27.2 (25) | 13.2 (5) | <0.001 | II° | 56.5 (52) | 34.2 (13) | III° | 16.3 (15) | 52.6 (20) | Smoking | 3.1 (4) | 7.7 (10) | <0.001 | Work character | | | | Does not work | 11.5 (15) | 3.8 (5) | 0.761 | Intellectual | 51.5 (67) | 23.1 (30) | Physical | 7.7 (10) | 2.3 (3) | Stress | 10.0 (13) | 11.5 (15) | <0.001 |
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