Table 3.

Pharmacological treatments used by patients before thyroidectomy and at the last follow-up visit.

	Before thyroidectomy			Last visit			Comparison last visit vs. before surgery
	Group H	Group NH		Group H	Group NH		Group H	Group NH
			P			P	P	P
Calcium	9 (2.7)	17 (2.5)	0.526	296 (87.8)	57 (8.5)	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Calcitriol				332 (98.5)	0 (0)	<0.001
Levothyroxine	32 (9.5)	44 (6.6)	0.066	337 (100)	669 (100)
Vitamin D	21 (6.2)	26 (3.9)	0.068	138 (40.9)	238 (35.6)	0.098	<0.001	<0.001
Hypolipidemic drugs	48 (14.2)	101 (15.1)	0.394	91 (27.0)	200 (29.9)	0.337	<0.001	<0.001
Oral antidiabetics	13 (3.9)	35 (5.2)	0.211	32 (9.5)	67 (10.0)	0.824	<0.001	<0.001
Injectable antidiabetics	2 (0.6)	4 (0.6)	0.677	10 (3.0)	18 (2.7)	0.840	0.008	0.001
Insulin	3 (0.9)	9 (1.3)	0.387	5 (1.5)	15 (2.2)	0.482	0.500	0.109
Thiazide diuretics	16 (4.7)	32 (4.8)	0.562	65 (19.3)	93 (13.9)	0.028	<0.001	<0.001
Non thiazide diuretics	11 (3.3)	12 (1.8)	0.108	19 (5.6)	37 (5.5)	1.000	0.057	<0.001
Beta-blockers	11 (3.3)	27 (4.0)	0.339	29 (8.6)	51 (7.6)	0.622	<0.001	<0.001
Calcium antagonists	20 (5.9)	28 (4.2)	0.142	30 (8.9)	64 (9.6)	0.819	0.064	<0.001
ACE inhibitors	36 (10.7)	91 (13.6)	0.111	70 (20.8)	181 (27.1)	0.031	<0.001	<0.001
Antiarrhythmics	1 (0.3)	4 (0.6)	0.457	4 (1.2)	9 (1.3)	1.000	0.375	0.227
Oral anticoagulants	1 (0.3)	6 (0.9)	0.259	8 (2.4)	14 (2.1)	0.821	0.016	0.039
Anxiolytics	35 (10.4)	63 (9.4)	0.350	62 (18.4)	130 (19.4)	0.734	<0.001	<0.001
Antidepressants	18 (5.3)	43 (6.4)	0.298	38 (11.3)	87 (13.0)	0.479	0.001	<0.001
Antipsychotics	4 (1.2)	9 (1.3)	0.547	5 (1.5)	14 (2.1)	0.627	1.000	0.125

Data are the number of patients (percentage) in each pharmacological group.

ACE, angiotensin-converting enzyme.