Table 2.
Hazard ratio of mortality in singletons with hyperthyroidism
| Study population | Sex | Number |
HR |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperthyroidism | Controls | Nonadjusted | Adjusteda | ||
| Random 5% sample of the background population | All | 4,850 | 19,400b | 1.37 (1.30–1.46) | 1.28 (1.21–1.36) |
| Male | 843 | 3,372b | 1.31 (1.14–1.49) | 1.12 (0.98–1.29) | |
| Female | 4,007 | 1,628b | 1.39 (1.31–1.48) | 1.32 (1.24–1.41) | |
a
Adjusted for degree of comorbidity, prior to the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism, using the CS.29
b
Each case is matched with four unrelated controls with respect to age and gender.