Table 6.
Prevalence of thyroid diseases among people with different iodine nutritional status.
| thyroid disease | Deficient iodine intake(n=297) | Adequate iodine intake(n=861) | More than adequate iodine intake(n=745) | Excessive iodine intake(n=725) | χ2 | P | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Percentage /% | n | Percentage /% | n | Percentage /% | n | Percentage /% | |||
| Clinical hyperthyroidism | 2 | 0.67 | 9 | 1.06 | 10 | 1.34 | 10 | 1.38 | 1.17 | 0.761 |
| Subclinical hyperthyroidism | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.12 | 2 | 0.27 | 1 | 0.14 | 1.19 | 0.756 |
| Clinical hypothyroidism | 8 | 2.69 | 6 | 0.71 | 5 | 0.67 | 7 | 0.97 | 10.22 | 0.017 |
| Subclinical hypothyroidism | 81 | 27.27 | 265 | 30.78 | 203 | 26.57 | 228 | 29.84 | 3.79 | 0.285 |
| Goiter | 8 | 2.70 | 19 | 2.24 | 8 | 1.08 | 21 | 2.90 | 6.49 | 0.090 |
| Single thyroid nodule | 21 | 7.07 | 62 | 7.30 | 50 | 6.71 | 36 | 4.97 | 3.94 | 0.268 |
| Multinodular thyroid gland | 3 | 1.01 | 16 | 1.88 | 12 | 1.61 | 15 | 2.07 | 1.54 | 0.673 |
| TPO Ab positivity | 33 | 11.11 | 88 | 10.37 | 64 | 8.59 | 70 | 9.66 | 2.13 | 0.545 |
| TG Ab positivity | 27 | 9.09 | 79 | 9.31 | 58 | 7.79 | 76 | 10.48 | 3.24 | 0.357 |