Thyroid Parameters and Kidney Disorder in Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the METAL Study

Table 3

Comparison of AUROC between thyroid hormones for kidney disorders.

	Reduced eGFR		Higher UACR		Higher UACR and/or reduced eGFR
Total participants
TSH	0.549	0.014	0.502	0.881	0.506	0.517
FT3	0.742	<0.001	0.552	<0.001	0.571	<0.001
FT4	0.521	0.276	0.528	0.007	0.531	0.002
T3	0.705	<0.001	0.535	0.001	0.551	<0.001
T4	0.486	0.479	0.515	0.130	0.515	0.123
Euthyroid participants
TSH	0.518	0.490	0.486	0.241	0.486	0.242
FT3	0.698	<0.001	0.548	<0.001	0.562	<0.001
FT4	0.544	0.093	0.529	0.018	0.533	0.006
T3	0.645	<0.001	0.511	0.368	0.525	0.034
T4	0.542	0.104	0.535	0.004	0.536	0.002

Data are presented as the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUROC).