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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
Prevalence Of Subclinical Hypothyroidism In Dyslipidemic Patients
Dr. Hacer ŞEN,a Dr. Ömer DÖNDERİCİ,a Dr. Onur CENGİZ,a Dr. Sercan CANSARAN,a Dr. İbrahim TÜRKERa
a1. Dahiliye Kliniği, Ankara Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, ANKARA
Objective: It is well-established that dyslypidemia occurs in clinical hypotyhroidism. However, data on subclinical hypothyroidism is controversial and are limited to total cholesterol. In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism in all subgroups of dyslipidemia.
Material and Methods: The study group consisted of 356 patients (277 females, 79 males) who presented to the internal medicine outpatient clinic. Thus, we examined the lipid profile and thyroid function tests in all patients. Then, for all groups with or without dyslipidemia, we examined the prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism and compared the groups for statistical significance.
Results: The frequency of subclinical hypothyroidism was 5.9% in cases with hypercholesterolemia and 6.6% in those without, 4.7% in patients with high levels of LDL-cholesterol and in 7.2% in those with normal levels, in 7.4% of hypertriglyceridemia patients and in 5.0% in those without and in 2.6% cases with low levels of HDL-cholesterol level and in 7.1% in those with normal levels. According to these results, there was no statistically significant difference between patients with and without dyslipidemia. Similarly, there was no significant difference between subclinical hypotyhroid patients and the eutyhroid ones.
Conclusion: Based on these results, we suggest that subclinical hypothyroidism is similar to euthyroidism with regard to dyslipidemia.Keywords: Hypothyroidism; dyslipidemiasTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 2007, 27:344-349
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