Spectrum and Prevalence of Thyroid Diseases at a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia: A Retrospective Study of 976 Cases

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the patients (n = 971), January 2017–December 2019, Somalia.

	n (%)
Gender
Female	650 (66.6)
Male	326 (33.4)
Age (years, mean ± SD)	47 ± 18.5
Age groups
18–30	236 (24.2)
31–50	350 (35.9)
51–70	269 (27.6)
71–90	116 (11.9)
≥91	5 (0.5)
Diagnosis
Subclinical hyperthyroidism	55 (5.7)
Hyperthyroidism	74 (7.6)
Euthyroid sick syndrome	571 (58.8)
Hypothyroidism	150 (15.4)
Subclinical hypothyroidism	121 (12.5)
Comorbidities
DM	131 (13.4)
HIV	101 (10.4)
Malaria	48 (4.9)
HIV and malaria	44 (4.5)
Type
Benign	954 (97.8)
Malignant	22 (2.2)
Differentiated	2 (0.2)
Follicular	9 (0.9)
Papillary	11 (1.1)