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Altered fructosamine and lipid fractions in subclinical hypothyroidism.
J Clin Diagn Res
January 2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Tadikela Subbaiah Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Shivamogga, India .
Background: Thyroid function disorders lead to changes in the lipoprotein metabolism.
Objectives: To study the lipid and the glycaemic abnormalities in the subclinical hypothyroidism cases and to compare the same with the euthyroid, overt hypothyroid and the hyperthyroid subjects.
Methodology: Four groups, euthyroid (Group-I), hypothyroid (Group-II), subclinical hypothyroid (Group-III) and hyperthyroid (Group-IV), which consisted of 30 subjects each, of either sex, who were aged 25-55 years, underwent Fasting Plasma Glucose (FPG), fructosamine, lipid profile and total T3, T4 and TSH estimations.