Table 2.

The clinical characteristics of patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Graves’ disease, and healthy controls.

Variable	HC	HT	GD	Normal range
No.	30	36	30	–
Age (years)	37 ± 8	34 ± 9	30 ± 9	–
Gender (M/F)	4/26	4/32	5/25	–
Thyrotropin (mIU/L)	1.3 ± 0.2	14.2 ± 3.16	0.007 ± 0.01	0.35–4.94
FT4 (ng/dL)	1.4 ± 0.1	0.9 ± 0.2	46.02 ± 14.7	9.01–19.05
FT3 (pg/mL)	2.6 ± 0.5	3.7 ± 0.2	34.3 ± 6.9	2.63–5.70
Thyrotrophin receptor antibody (IU/L)	–	–	37.6 ± 9.5	0–1
TPOAb (IU/mL)	5.03 ± 0.7	343.27 ± 126.2	167.5 ± 23.2	0.11–5.23
TgAb (IU/mL)	2.54 ± 0.5	433.45 ± 102.7	192.28 ± 17.32	0.81–3.83

Data are expressed as mean ± SD. The “–” represents that the experiment was not performed, or the data are not applicable.

M, male; F, female; HT, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; GD, Graves’ disease; HC, healthy controls.