Research Article

Prevalence of Thyroid Abnormalities in Thai Patients with Vitiligo

Table 2

Patient’s demographics and characteristics between vitiligo with and without autoimmune thyroid disease (total 197 patients).

DataPatients with AITD,
Patients without AITD,
value

Gender,
(%)
Female, 23 (92%)Female, 111 (64.5%)0.005
Male, 2 (8%)Male, 61 (35.5%)

Fitzpatrick
skin type,
(%)
III: 7 (28%)III: 39 (22.7%)0.7
IV: 16 (64%)IV: 122 (70.9%)
V: 2 (8%)V: 11 (6.4%)

Family history of vitiligo, (%)4 (16%)45 (25.2%)0.27

Family history of autoimmune diseases, (%) 7 (28%)23 (13.4%)0.07

Age of onset,
median (range)
40 (9–62)37 (2–74)0.84

Location,
(%)
Hand, 11 (44%)Hand, 49 (28.5%)0.11
Head/neck, 10 (40%)Head/neck, 77 (44.8%)0.65
Arm, 3 (12%)Arm, 22 (12.8%)1

Median body surface area involvement (range)3% (1–80%)2% (0.1–50%)0.025

Type of vitiligo,
(%)
Nonsegmental, 25 (100%)Nonsegmental 140 (81.4%)0.017
Segmental, 0 (0%)Segmental, 23 (13.4%)0.05

Leukotrichia,
(%)
18 (72%)85 (49.4%)0.035

Koebner’s phenomenon,
(%)
IIA: 10 (40%)IIA: 46 (26.7%)0.17
IIB: 13 (52%)IIB: 66 (38.4%)0.19
III: 0 (0%)III: 1 (0.58%)1

AITD: autoimmune thyroid disease.