Table 1.
Characteristics of patients with thyroid disease on the 2 data sets.
| Demographic and clinical factors | Private data set | MIMICa-IV data set | |||||||||
| Overall | Male | Female | TCb | BTDc | Overall | Male | Female | TC | BTD | ||
| Number of patients | 18,311 | 7124 | 11,187 | 1144 | 17,167 | 52,108 | 14,724 | 37,384 | 482 | 51,626 | |
| Age (years), median (IQR) | 58 (49-67) | 59 (51-68) | 57 (47-66) | 43 (34-53) | 59 (50-67) | 67 (55-78) | 68 (57-78) | 67 (55-79) | 56 (45-70) | 67 (55-79) | |
| Number of comorbidities, median (IQR) | 5 (3-7) | 6 (4-8) | 4 (3-6) | 3 (2-4) | 5 (3-7) | 7 (5-10) | 8 (5-11) | 7 (5-10) | 4 (3-6) | 7 (5-10) | |
aMIMIC: Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care.
bTC: thyroid cancer.
cBTD: benign thyroid disease.