High Prevalence of Infertility among Women with Graves’ Disease and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

Table 2

Pregnancy characteristics and primary ovarian insufficiency in the women with GD and HT who reported a period of infertility and those who did not.

History	Infertility	No infertility	𝑃 value
Graves’ disease 𝑛(%)	101 (52.3)	92 (47.7)
Number of pregnancies^a	2.7 (1.4)	2.9 (1.6)	NS^b
Number of living children^a	2.4 (1.4)	2.4 (1.4)	NS^b
Pregnancy losses (%)	19 (18.8)	20 (21.7)	NS^c
Primary ovarian insufficiency (%)	8 (7.9)	8 (8.7)	NS^c
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis 𝑛(%)	31 (47.0)	35 (53.0)
Number of pregnancies^a	2.71 (1.53)	3.2 (1.8)	NS^b
Number of living children^a	2.26 (1.06)	2.9 (1.9)	NS^b
Pregnancy losses (%)	7 (22.6)	7 (20.6)	NS^c
Primary ovarian insufficiency (%)	4 (12.9)	2 (5.7)	NS^d

NS: not significant; avalues are mean ± SD; bMann-Whitney test; cchi-square test; dFisher’s exact test.