Table 2.
Mann–Whitney U test between the color Doppler ultrasound grading of hyperthyroidism and the biochemical data of thyroid function.
| The biochemical data of thyroid function | Level 1 (n= 12) M (Q25, Q75) |
Level 2 (n= 64) M (Q25, Q75) |
Z | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FT3 (pmol/L) | 8.95 (6.12, 12.20) | 24.66 (13.31, 30.80) | −3.907 | ≤0.001 |
| FT4 (pmol/L) | 28.64 (18.91, 35.67) | 54.58 (33.31, 83.29) | −3.777 | ≤0.001 |
| TSH (u IU/ml) | 0.005 (0.004, 0.007) | 0.005 (0.005, 0.008) | −0.426 | 0.670 |
| Anti-TG (IU/ml) | 89.45 (15.00, 319.98) | 148.15 (32.00, 500.00) | −1.369 | 0.171 |
| Anti-TPO (IU/ml) | 265.15 (65.44, 1207.95) | 222.00 (41.08, 848.85) | −0.315 | 0.753 |
| TRAb (IU/l) | 4.50 (1.24, 6.19) | 9.01 (4.33, 20.00) | −2.993 | 0.003 |
| SPINA-gt (pmol/s) | 1090.90 (672.13, 1548.37) | 2248.87 (1013.36, 3414.35) | −2.636 | 0.008 |
| SPINA-gd (nmol/s) | 34.02 (27.84, 37.27) | 36.72 (31.69, 41.94) | −1.524 | 0.127 |
| TSHI | −2.23 (−1.20, 0.25) | 2.15 (−0.18, 5.52) | −3.441 | 0.001 |
| TTSI | 0.79 (0.34, 1.20) | 1.33 (0.84, 2.20) | −2.273 | 0.023 |