Association of High Vitamin D Status with Low Circulating Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Independent of Thyroid Hormone Levels in Middle-Aged and Elderly Males

Table 4

Standardized regression coefficients of variables in relation to serum TSH according to gender.

	Male (561)		Female (863)
	Beta	P value	Beta	P value
Age (years)	−0.012	0.836	−0.023	0.647
Serum FT3 (pmol/L)	0.069	0.244	−0.043	0.399
Serum FT4 (pmol/L)	−0.040	0.501	−0.066	0.201
Presence of TgAb (%)	0.029	0.636	0.098	0.060
Presence of TPOAb (%)	−0.002	0.971	0.056	0.284
Thyroid volume (mL)	−0.152	0.009	−0.056	0.262
Presence of thyroid nodule(s) (%)	−0.025	0.669	−0.116	0.023
Current smokers (n (%))	−0.054	0.361	−0.001	0.985
Serum 25(OH)D (nmol/L)	−0.166	0.004	−0.001	0.983