Research Article
Spectrum and Prevalence of Thyroid Diseases at a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia: A Retrospective Study of 976 Cases
Table 2
Baseline characteristics of the patients according to thyroid function disorders (n = 971), January 2017–December 2019, Somalia.
| | Subclinical hyperthyroidism (n = 55) | Hyperthyroidism (n = 74) | Euthyroid sick syndrome (n = 571) | Hypothyroidism (n = 150) | Subclinical hypothyroidism (n = 121) |
| | Gender (n, %) | | Female | 41 (6.3) | 62 (9.6) | 348 (53.8) | 106 (16.4) | 90 (13.9) | | Male | 14 (4.3) | 12 (3.7) | 223 (68.8) | 44 (13.6) | 31 (9.6) | | Age (mean ± SD), years | 44 ± 16.1 | 38 ± 14.6 | 49 ± 19.6 | 45 ± 15.3 | 48 ± 18.8 | | Age groups (n, %) | | 18–30 | 11 (4.7) | 28 (12) | 140 (59.8) | 30 (12.8) | 25 (10.7) | | 31–50 | 29 (8.4) | 32 (9.2) | 166 (47.8) | 73 (21) | 47 (13.5) | | 51–70 | 11 (4.1) | 11 (4.1) | 176 (65.4) | 36 (13.4) | 35 (13) | | 71–90 | 4 (3.4) | 3 (2.6) | 86 (74.1) | 11 (9.5) | 12 (10.3) | | ≥91 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (60) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (40) | | Histopathological results (n, %) | | Thyroid cancer | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (50) | 5 (22.7) | 5 (22.7) | | Comorbidities (n, %) | | Malaria | 6 (6.0) | 1 (1.0) | 63 (63) | 15 (15) | 15 (15) | | HIV | 3 (6.4) | 0 | 30 (63.8) | 4 (8.5) | 10 (21.5) | | Malaria + HIV | 3 (7) | 0 | 27 (62.8) | 3 (7) | 10 (23.5) | | Diabetes mellitus | 15 (11.5) | 7 (5.4) | 77 (59.2) | 15 (11.5) | 16 (12.3) |
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