Table 1. Clinical features of the HT patients and healthy controls included in the study.

	HT patients	Healthy controls	Range	P-values
Number	28	20
Gender (M/F)	5/23	3/17
Age (year)	42 ± 15	42 ± 8		0.98
FT3 (pmol/liter)	4.87 ± 0.64	4.99 ± 0.56	3.1–6	0.51
FT4 (pmol/liter)	10.42 ± 2.36	10.72 ± 1.36	7.86–17.41	0.61
TSH (uIU/ml)	7.26 ± 11.26	1.98 ± 0.94	0.34–5.6	<0.05
TgAb (IU/ml)	162.6 ± 349.9	0.3 ± 1.0	0–4	<0.05
TPOAb (IU/ml)	570.3 ± 883.5	0.6 ± 0.5	0–9	<0.01

Data correspond to the arithmetic mean ± SD and were compared using unpaired t-tests. M: male; F: female.