Venous thromboembolism in patients hospitalized with thyroid dysfunction.

The objective of this investigation is to explore a possible role of thyroid dysfunction in venous thromboembolism (VTE). The number of patients discharged from short-stay nonfederal hospitals in the United States, from 1979 to 2005, with a diagnostic code for hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, pulmonary embolism (PE), and deep venous thrombosis (DVT) was obtained from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS). Among 19,519,000 hospitalized patients discharged with a diagnosis of hypothyroidism from 1979 to 2005, 119,000 (0.