Table 2.

Percentage of subjects with Se levels below the threshold for optimal plasma glutathione peroxidase [45]

	% of patients with
Study groups	low Se	sufficient Se
Controls	33,0	67,0
Ski jumpers	50,0	50,0
Ski runners	43,1	56,9
Children hypothyroidism	48,9	51,1
Children Hashimoto	46,4	53,6
Children hyperthroidism	75,0	25,0
Children polyendocrinopathy	66,7	33,3
Thyroid normal	49,5	50,5
Thyroid immunogenic	46,6	53,4
Subacute thyroiditis	76,0	24,0
Silent thyroiditis	84,6	15,4
follicular Ca	64,3	35,7
foll papillary Ca	63,6	36,4
giant cell papillary Ca	40,0	60,0
invasive Ca	75,0	25,0
papillary Ca	52,1	47,9