Metabolic Syndrome and Subclinical Hypothyroidism: A Type 2 Diabetes-Dependent Association

Table 1

General characteristics according to the presence of subclinical hypothyroidism in adults from Maracaibo City, Venezuela.

	Euthyroidism		Subclinical hypothyroidism		Total		(p)
	n		n		n
Sex							3,5 (0,059)
Female	159	86,4	25	13,6	184	52,9
Male	191	92,3	16	7,7	207	47,1
Age groups (years)							19,8 (<0,001)
<40	183	95,3	9	4,7	192	49,1
40-59	133	86,9	20	13,1	153	39,1
≥60	34	73,9	12	26,1	46	11,8
Socioeconomic strata							7,55 (0,109)
High class	5	62,5	3	37,5	8	2,0
Middle-high class	56	88,9	7	11,1	63	16,2
Middle class	157	91,8	14	8,2	171	43,7
Working class	120	88,2	16	11,8	136	34,8
Extreme poverty	12	92,3	1	7,7	13	3,3
T2DM§							12,21 (<0,001)
Absent	332	94,9	33	80,5	365	93,4
Present	18	5,1	8	19,5	26	6,6
Total	350	89,5	41	10,5	391	100,0

§ Type 2 diabetes mellitus personal history. Chi square test.