Response to Radioiodine Therapy for Thyrotoxicosis: Disparate Outcomes for an Indigenous Population

Table 3

Outcomes following radioactive iodine.

		Non-Māori		Māori
			%		%
Overall	Failure	21	14.8%	25	35.2%	0.001
	Success	121	85.2%	46	64.8%
GD	Success	82	83.7%	20	55.6%	0.001
	Failure	16	16.3%	16	44.4%
TMNG/STA	Success	39	88.6%	26	74.3%	0.097
	Failure	5	11.4%	9	25.7%

GD: Graves’s disease; TMNG: toxic multinodular goitre; STA: solitary toxic adenoma.