Abstract
The frequency of hypothyroidism in Saudi community-based hospital: A retrospective single centre study
Highlights
Thyroid gland is one of the important organs in human body and the burden of thyroid diseases in the general population is enormous specially in females [1,2]
Among them we found 1125 (29.1%) cases with hypothyroidism
Cases with hypothyroidism were nonsignificantly older than cases with no hypothyroidism, 44.9 ± 16.2 vs. 43.8 ± 16.4 respectively, p = 0.06
Summary
Thyroid gland is one of the important organs in human body and the burden of thyroid diseases in the general population is enormous specially in females [1,2]. Thyroid diseases can be classified according to the gland function into hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism which can be further classified into primary and secondary [4]. Several studies have been reported from different parts of the world showing the prevalence of hypothyroidism. In the Whickham survey, the prevalence of newly diagnosed overt hypothyroidism was 3 per 1000 women [6]. The prevalence of previously diagnosed and treated hypothyroidism was 14 per 1000 women, increasing to 19 per 1000 women when possible but unproven cases were included. The prevalence of hypothyroidism was 10 per1000 women, increasing to 15 per 1000. In the Colorado and NHANES III studies, the prevalence of newly diagnosed hypothyroidism was 4 per 1000 and 3 per 1000respectively [7,8]. To estimate retrospectively the frequency of hypothyroidism in Saudi community-based hospital
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