Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies in Non-Interferon Treated Hepatitis C Patients in Pakistan

Table 1

Characteristics of HCV patients and control subjects.

	Cases	Control	value
Number ()	190	200	—
Mean age (year)	35.0 ± 9.7	33.3 ± 9.9	0.083
Age range (year)	5–55	18–60	—
Number of female patients	140 (73.7%)	149 (74.5%)	0.200
Number of male patients	50 (26.3%)	51 (25.5%)	0.192
Mean FT4	16.0 ± 3.0	16.0 ± 2.3	0.981
Mean TSH	1.5 ± 0.8	1.7 ± 0.9	0.091
TPO-Ab positive	51 (26.8%)	17 (8.5%)	0.0001

value = it explains the probability of incidence of given event.