PREVALENCE OF THYROID DYSFUNCTION IN DIABETIC PATIENT

  • Shivi Saxena Lecturer, Dept. of Faculty of Physiotherapy and diagnostic, Jyoti Vidhyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur

Abstract

The study was undertaken with an objective to know the thyroid functions in Type 2 diabetics and to know the spectrum of thyroid dysfunction in Type 2 DM.100 type 2 diabetic patients were retrospectively investigated who were admitted for the Diabetes Centre in Al ¬Qurayyat Governorate, Al-Jouf, and KSA. Parameters investigated in the study are age, body mass index, fasting bood glucose, post-prandial blood glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, free triidothyronine (fT3), free thyroxine (fT4) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH).the diabetic patients studied, 69% had normal thyroid profile (euthyroid) and 31% showed thyroid dysfunction (25% had subclinical hypothyroidism, 3.5% had clinical hypothyroidism, and 2.5% had clinical hyperthyroidism) while no cases of subclinical hyperthyroidism were found.

Key words: Prevalence, Diabetes mellitus, Hypothyroidism, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, thyroid disorders.

Published
2018-04-28
How to Cite
Saxena, S. (2018). PREVALENCE OF THYROID DYSFUNCTION IN DIABETIC PATIENT. Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, 7(2). Retrieved from http://jbpr.in/index.php/jbpr/article/view/520
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Research Articles