Abstract
Official Journal of the Endocrine Society of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism (SJDEM) publishes original research articles, reviews, and other special features related to diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism in humans and human tissue.
Highlights
T2DM has become one of the major non communicable diseases worldwide and the prevalence has risen steadily over the past few decades
The most common thyroid dysfunction (TD) categories were subclinical hypothyroidism (9.4%, 95% CI:6.7-12.7%) and overt hypothyroidism (6.1%, 95% CI:3.9-8.9%)
The presence of TD was strongly associated with female sex (p
Summary
T2DM has become one of the major non communicable diseases worldwide and the prevalence has risen steadily over the past few decades. In Sri Lanka, the prevalence of T2DM in 2006 was 10.3% and the projected prevalence for the year 2030 is 13.9% [1]. The prevalence of TD among normal subjects varies according to the studied population. In a populationbased study done in India on 971 adult subjects, the prevalence of overt and subclinical hypothyroidism was 3.9% and 9.4% respectively. Same study revealed that overt and subclinical hyperthyroidism was present in 1.3% and 1.6% of subjects respectively [2]. In the NHANES III study, it was shown that 4.6% of the US population had hypothyroidism (0.3% overt and 4.3% subclinical) and 1.3% had hyperthyroidism (0.5% overt and 0.7% subclinical) [3]
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