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

Table 6

Comparison of gender differences in autoantibody positive rates in different age groups.

Age (years)	TPOAb (+)		p	TgAb (+)		p
	Male	Female		Male	Female
18–29	17 (11.7%)	38 (13.9%)	0.944	7 (7.1%)	28 (13.1%)	0.463
30–39	30 (20.7%)	51 (18.7%)		17 (17.2%)	42 (19.6%)
40–49	31 (21.4%)	63 (23.1%)		22 (22.2%)	54 (25.2%)
50–59	44 (30.3%)	74 (27.1%)		35 (35.4%)	60 (28.0%)
60–69	16 (11.0%)	31 (11.4%)		14 (14.1%)	23 (10.7%)
≥70	7 (4.8%)	16 (5.9%)		4 (4.0%)	7 (3.3%)
Total	145 (34.7%)	273 (65.3%)		99 (31.6%)	214 (68.4%)

TPOAb: thyroid peroxidase antibody; TgAb: thyroglobulin antibody; “+”: positive autoantibody; “−”: negative autoantibodies.