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. 2023 Dec 6;23:270. doi: 10.1186/s12902-023-01524-x

Table 3.

Thyroid dysfunction in different subgroups

Euthyroid
(n = 2025)
Hypothyroidism
(n = 164)
Hyperthyroidism
(n = 39)
P value
Sex 0.029
Female 1220 (60.2%) 112 (68.3%) 29 (74.4%)
Male 805 (39.8%) 52 (31.7%) 10 (25.6%)
Age 0.22
<50 1088 (53.7%) 78 (47.6%) 18 (46.2%)
≥50 937 (46.3%) 86 (52.4%) 21 (53.8%)
BMI 0.301
underweight and normal 347 (17.1%) 24 (14.6%) 7 (17.9%)
overweight 952 (47%) 66 (40.2%) 20 (51.3%)
obese 726 (35.9%) 74 (45.1%) 12 (30.8%)
Cigarette Smoking 0.132
Yes 255 (12.6%) 12 (7.3%) 6 (13.4%)
No 1770 (87.4%) 152 (92.7%) 33 (84.6%)

BMI: body mass index. P-value less than 0.05 is considered significant