Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study population, N = 24,094.

Variables	Values
Age, years
Mean	74.7 ± 10.8
Median	76
Range	18–104
Male sex (%)	12,830 (53.2)
Amiodarone daily dose (%)
<200 mg	4,982 (20.7)
200–400 mg	18,274 (75.8)
>400 mg	837 (3.5)
Underlying diagnoses (%)
Hypothyroidism	6,064 (25.2)
Thyrotoxicosis	957 (4.0)
Complication of amiodarone therapy (%)
Hypothyroidism	5,563 (23.1)
Thyrotoxicosis	573 (2.4)
Liver cirrhosis	410 (1.7)
Peripheral neuropathy	1,405 (5.8)