Clinical Study
Thyroid Autoimmunity and Behçet’s Disease: Is There a Significant Association?
Table 2
Thyroid hormone levels and autoimmune thyroiditis status in the patient and control groups.
| | Euthyroid (n) | Subclinicd hypothyroid (n) | Hypothyroid (n) | Hyperthyroid (n) |
FT4 (mean ± SD) | TSH (mean ± SD) |
| Patients | 17 (80.95%) | 2 (9.52%) | 1 (4.76%) | 1 (4.46%) | 1.21 ± 0.19 | 1.67 ± 1.08 | Controls | 18 (81.82%) | 2 (9.10%) | 1 (4.54%) | 1 (4.54%) | 1.11 ± 0.19 | 1.83 ± 0.98 | P | | | | | 0.000* | 0.120 |
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Student’s t-test was used. *P < 0.001.
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