Title: Correlative Study of Thyroid Dysfunction with Blood Sugar Levels and Serum Lipid Levels in Post Menopausal Women
Authors: Dr Mohammad Zahid Labrez, Dr Ashok Kumar
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v8i3.47
Abstract
Background: Thyroid disorder is common in the general population and the extensiveness increase with age. Diabetic patients have a higher extensiveness of thyroid disorders compared with the normal population. Because patients with one organ autoimmune disease are at risk of developing other autoimmune disorders, and thyroid disorders are more common in females tan male. So we want to find out any correlation between thyroid dysfunction with blood sugar levels and serum lipid levels in post menopausal women.
Methods: It was a cross sectional study. One hundred post menopausal women were randomly included in study over a period of one and half year between June 2018 to November 2019 after matched with inclusion and exclusion criteria and followed up in the Medicine OPD, of Patna Medical College &Hospital, Patna.
Results: 100 postmenopausal women were screened for thyroid dysfunction in this cross sectional study. Prevalence of hypothyroidism was found to be 22%and of subclinical was 8% and of thyrotoxicosis was 2%. It is seen that thyroid dysfunction has a correlation with duration of menopause with maximum patients having more than 10 years of menopause.
Conclusion: Thyroid dysfunction is seen in a significant percentage of postmenopausal women. The predominant dysfunction seen is overt hypothyroidism, followed by subclinical hypothyroidism. The incidence of thyrotoxicosis was very less in these women. Hypothyroidism was seen more in women with increasing age and increasing duration of menopause and was associated with an increased BMI.
Keywords: overt hypothyroidism, Subclinical hypothyroidism, Postmenopausal women, Dyslipidemia, Diabetes mellitus, HDL, LDL, TG, TC.
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