An Investigation on the Risk Factors of Thyroid Diseases in Community Population in Hainan

Table 5

The difference of thyroid disease between recessive and positive autoantibody groups.

Item	TPOAb		TgAb
	+ (%) n = 418	−(%) n = 1716	+ (%) n = 313	−(%) n = 1812
Thyroid dysfunction
Hypothyroidism	12 (2.9%)	22 (1.3%)	1 (0.3%)	26 (1.4%)
Subclinical hypothyroidism	31 (7.4%)	133 (7.8%)	26 (8.3%)	138 (7.6%)
Thyroid hyperfunction
Hyperthyroidism	6 (1.4%)	24 (1.4%)	7 (2.2%)	23 (1.3%)
Subclinical hyperthyroidism	16 (3.8%)	20 (1.2%)	1 (0.3%)	23 (1.3%)
Thyroid cancer	2 (0.5%)	10 (0.6%)	0 (0%)	12 (0.7%)
Thyroid nodules	141 (33.7%)	628 (36.6%)	113 (36.1%)	656 (36.2%)
Positive thyroid antibody	46 (11%)	168 (9.8%)	45 (14.4%)	169 (9.3%)
Thyroma	1 (0.2%)	2 (0.1%)	0 (0%)	3 (0.2%)
Total	255 (61.0%)	1007 (58.7%)	193 (61.7%)	1050 (57.9%)
p	<0.001		<0.001

TPOAb: thyroid peroxidase antibody; TgAb: thyroglobulin antibody; “+”: positive autoantibody; “−”: negative autoantibodies. “” and bold text represent statistical significance.