Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients stratified based on age, sex, waist circumference, BMI, co-morbidities and etiology of hypothyroidism

Characteristics	Overall (n = 151)	(+) Metabolic syndrome (n = 61)	(-) Metabolic syndrome (n = 90)	p
Age (years), n (%)  18 - 40  41 - 60  ≥60	55 (36.4%) 70 (46.4%) 26 (17.2%)	14 (23.0%) 33 (54.1%) 14 (23.0%)	41 (45.6%) 37 (41.1%) 12 (13.3%)	0.015*
Sex, n (%)  Female  Male	99 (65.6%) 52 (34.4%)	40 (65.6%) 21 (34.4%)	59 (65.6%) 31 (34.4%)	0.998*
Waist circumference (cm), mean (sd)  Among females  Among males	83.2 (10.4) 87.6 (9.6)	88.4 (7.7) 93.3 (9.0)	79.8 (10.5) 83.7 (7.9)	<0.001**
BMI (kg/m2), n (%)  <18.5  18.5 - 22.9  23.0 - 24.9  25.0 - 29.9  ≥30.0	10 (6.8%) 52 (35.4%) 32 (21.8%) 40 (27.2%) 13 (8.8%)	1 (1.7%) 13 (22.0%) 16 (27.1%) 21 (35.6%) 8 (13.6%)	9 (10.2%) 39 (44.3%) 16 (18.2%) 19 (21.6%) 5 (5.7%)	0.005*
Comorbidities, n (%)  Diabetes mellitus  Hypertension  Myocardial infarction  Stroke	19 (12.6%) 35 (23.2%) - -	14 (23.0%) 27 (44.3%) - -	5 (5.6%) 8 (8.9%) - -	0.002* <0.001* - -
Etiology, n (%)  Post-procedural  Autoimmune  Central	115 (76.2%) 21 (13.9%) 15 (9.9%)	44 (72.1%) 10 (16.4%) 7 (11.5%)	71 (78.9%) 11 (12.2%) 8 (8.9%)	0.632*
Fasting Blood Glucose (mg/dL), median (IQR)	90.7 (38.9)	111.4 (52.2)	91.6 (24.5)	-
Lipid profile  Total cholesterol (mg/dL), median (IQR)  LDLC (mg/dL), median (IQR)  Triglycerides (mg/dL), median (IQR)  HDLC (mg/dl), median (IQR)   Among males   Among females  Non-HDLC (mg/dL), median (IQR)	223.5 (92.6) 139.2 (78.8) 140.7 (100.0) 42.3 (18.8) 53.5 (20.4) 167.3 (80.2)	221.2 (123.4) 126.5 (89.2) 174.3 (114.2) 38.1 (19.5) 43.6 (18.3) 171.1 (111.7)	225.8 (75.8) 142.9 (60.5) 118.6 (85.8) 46.2 (19.6) 57.6 (18.5) 162.6 (68.1)	0.383 0.138 - - 0.982
Blood pressure  Systolic blood pressure (mmHg), median (IQR)  Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), median (IQR)	110 (30) 80 (20)	120 (30) 80 (20)	110 (20) 70 (20)	- -

^*Student’s t test

^**Chi square test