Research Article
Goiter and Laryngopharyngeal Reflux
Table 1
Descriptive data of patients with goiter and controls.
| | Patient () | Control () |
| Age (mean ± SD) | | | Gender | | | âMales | 6 (11.5%) | 17 (54.8%) | âFemales | 46 (88.5%) | 14 (45.2%) | Smoking | | | âNo | 33 (63.5%) | 20 (64.5%) | âYes | 19 (36.5%) | 11 (35.5%) | Allergy | | | âAbsent | 46 (88.5%) | 28 (90.3%) | âPresent | 6 (11.5%) | 3 (9.7%) | Duration of disease in years (mean ± SD) | | N/A | Nodules | | N/A | âAbsent | 10 (19.2%) | | âPresent | 42 (80.8%) | |
*TSH | | N/A | âHyperthyroid | 5 (9.6%) | | âEuthyroid | 36 (69.2%) | | âHypothyroid | 5 (9.6%) | | âMissing | 6 (11.5%) | |
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*TSH: hyper-thyroid (<0.27); euthyroid (0.27â4.20); hypothyroid (>4.20).
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