Cardiac Effects of Thyrotropin Oversuppression with Levothyroxine in Young Women with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Table 2

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of the control group and differentiated thyroid cancer patients receiving long-term (5 to 9 years) levothyroxine suppression therapy.

Parameters	Cancer group ()	Control patients ()	P value
Age (years)			0.637
BMI (kg/m^2)			0.198
Heart rate (beats/min)			0.484
SBP (mmHg)			0.662
DBP (mmHg)			0.819
TSH (mU/L)			0.001
Free T4 (pmol/L)			0.002
Free T3 (pmol/L)			0.730
NT-pro-BNP (pg/mL)			0.198

Data are expressed as mean standard deviation. values are calculated by Mann-Whitney test. BMI, body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure; TSH, thyroid-stimulating hormone.