Research Article
Risk Factors for Thyroid Dysfunction among Type 2 Diabetic Patients in a Highly Diabetes Mellitus Prevalent Society
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of study sample for all subjects with or without thyroid dysfunction among Type 2 diabetic patients aged >25 years.
| | All samples
| Diabetic subjects with thyroid dysfunction
| Diabetic subjects without thyroid dysfunction
| value |
| Age (years)* | | | | 0.732 | Female gender† | 52.3 | 68.6 | 46.6 | <0.0001 | Duration of diabetes in years* | | | | 0.032 | Family history of diabetes† | 86.3 | 84.2 | 87.1 | 0.487 | Family history of thyroid disease† | 5.4 | 14.7 | 1.03 | <0.0001 | Positive smoking history† | 17.4 | 14.3 | 18.2 | 0.516 | Weight in kilogram (Kg)* | | | | 0.268 | Height (cm)* | | | | <0.0001 | BMI (kg/m2)* | | | | 0.209 | Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)* | | | | 0.926 | Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)* | | | | 0.198 | Presence of goiter† | 2.8 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 0.248 | HbA1c (%)* | | | | 0.943 | Fasting blood sugar (mmol/L)* | | | | 0.904 | Triglycerides (mmol/L)* | | | | 0.110 | Total cholesterol (mmol/L)* | | | | 0.429 | HDL (mmol/L)* | | | | 0.190 | LDL (mmol/L)* | | | | 0.427 | FT3 (pmol/L)* | | | | 0.552 | FT4 (pmol/L)* | | | | 0.048 | TSH (mIU/L)* | | | | <0.0001 |
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Data presented as mean ± SD, †Data presented as (%), and value is calculated between diabetic subjects with and without thyroid dysfunction.
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