PREVALENCE OF THYROID DYSFUNCTION IN CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE

Autor: Yash Desai, Abhijit Basu, Taniya Upadhyaya, Shahid Haideri, Prabhat Singh
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS. :9-11
Popis: Introduction: Chronic Liver Disease affects most of the organs in the human body. Various studies have been done regarding chronic liver disease, but not many studies are done on the assessment of thyroid function in chronic liver disease. Present study thus aimed at assessing the thyroid functions in chronic liver disease patients. Materials & Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital Study included 52 patients presenting with Chronic liver disease fullling the study criteria using purposive conservative sampling. Detailed examination was done for all cases including thyroid function tests. All analysis was carried out by using SPSS software version 21. Overall prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among chronic liver disease patients was 36.5%. A Results: signicant positive correlation was observed between severity of chronic liver disease and TSH levels (r-0.60) while an inverse correlation was observed with T3 and T4 levels (p
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