Research Article

Prevalence of Thyroid Abnormalities in Thai Patients with Vitiligo

Table 1

Patient’s demographics and characteristics between vitiligo with positive and negative thyroid autoantibody (total 325 patients).

DataPatients with positive thyroid antibody, Patients with negative
thyroid antibody,
value

Gender,
(%)
Female, 79 (77.5%)Female, 127 (57.0%)<0.001
Male, 23 (22.5%)Male, 96 (43.0%)

Fitzpatrick
skin type,
(%)
III: 17 (16.7%)III: 44 (19.7%)0.26
IV: 71 (69.6%)IV: 161 (72.2%)
V: 14 (13.7%)V: 18 (8.1%)

Family history of vitiligo, (%)23 (22.6%)52 (23.3%)0.88

Family history of autoimmune diseases, (%)17 (16.7%)22 (9.9%)0.08

Age of onset,
median (range)
40 (0–69)34 (1–74)0.055

Location,
(%)
Hand, 38 (37.3%)Hand, 55 (24.7%)0.02
Head/neck, 34 (33.3%)Head/neck, 109 (48.9%)0.009
Arm, 15 (14.1%)Arm, 21 (9.4%)0.16

Median body surface area involvement (range)3%2%0.12
(0.3–90%)(0.1–50%)

Type of vitiligo,
(%)
Nonsegmental, 87 (85.3%)Nonsegmental, 178 (79.8%)0.451
Segmental, 11 (10.8%)Segmental, 30 (13.5%)

Leukotrichia,
(%)
45 (44.1%)116 (52%)0.186

Koebner’s phenomenon,
(%)
IIA: 33 (32.3%)IIA: 51 (22.9%)0.07
IIB: 38 (37.3%)IIB: 79 (35.4%)0.75
III: 2 (2%)III: 1 (0.5%)0.233