Table 1.

Selected clinical and laboratory parameters of 44 infertile women with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HTIW) and 28 infertile controls (ICTR) at study enter.

	HTIW	ICTR	P value
Age, years (mean ± SD)	35.3 ± 4.99	33.79 ± 4.89	0.21*
BMI (mean ± SD)	22.86 ± 2.8	22.1 ± 2.4	0.22*
FSH, IU/mL (mean ± SD)	7.66 ± 2.34	7.37 ± 2.09	0.6*
TSH†, µIU/mL (median (25th–75th percentile))	2.22 (1.34–3.1)	1.55 (1.23–2.25)	0.048‡
FT3§, pg/mL (median (25th–75th percentile))	2.95 (2.68–3.25)	3.2 (2.9–3.43)	0.02‡
FT4**, ng/dL (median (25th–75th percentile))	1.14 (0.99–1.21)	1.15 (1.06–1.29)	0.22‡
TG-Ab††, U/mL (median (25th–75th percentile))	147 (63–293)	6 (2.5–17)	<0.0001‡
TPO-Ab††, U/mL (median (25th–75th percentile))	92 (74–268)	4.5 (1.5–17)	<0.0001‡

^*Unpaired Student’s t-test.

^†Normal range, 0.5–5.5.

^‡Mann-Whitney U test.

^§Normal range, 2.3–4.2.

^**Normal range 0.7–1.8.

^††Normal values <60.