Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients with HT and healthy control group.

	Control	HT	P value
Number	25	23	-
Sex (M/F)	13/12	10/13	ns
Age (Y)	43.83 ± 12.26	42.70 ± 11.20	ns
TPOAb (IU/ml)	1.15 ± 1.18	1580.42 ± 1462.93	b
TgAb (IU/ml)	1.41 ± 0.92	271.10 ± 267.80	b
TSH (mIU/L)	1.99 ± 0.93	2.85 ± 1.20	a
FT3 (pmol/L)	4.70 ± 0.40	4.33 ± 0.45	a
FT4 (pmol/L)	12.93 ± 1.07	13.01 ± 1.68	ns

Data are shown as the mean ± SD (Standard Deviation). The data normality was tested using the Shapiro-Wilk normality test. If data was not normally distributed, the Mann−Whitney U test was used. The t-test (FT3, FT4) and Mann-Whitney U test (Age, TPOAb, TgAb, TSH) were used to detect the clinical characteristics of patients with HT and healthy individuals.

^aP < 0.01.

^bP < 0.0001, HT, Hashimoto thyroiditis; M, male; F, Female; Y, year; ns, no significance.