Abstract

Introduction: A study using National Inpatient Sample database showed that around 16.2% of patients with thyrotoxicosis developed thyroid storm between 2004 to 2013. The incidence of thyroid storm ranged between 0.57 and 0.76 cases/100,000 persons per year, and 4.8 and 5.6/100,000 hospitalized patients per year with increased mortality risk by 12-fold.

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