Open AccessGender-Specific Impact of Metabolic Obesity Phenotypes on the Risk of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Data Analysis Using a Health Check-Up Database
Author(s) -
Hao Yang,
Qing Xia,
Yan Shen,
Ting-Li Chen,
Jing Wang,
Yayun Lu
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of inflammation research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.656
H-Index - 33
ISSN - 1178-7031
DOI - 10.2147/jir.s353384
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , body mass index , metabolic syndrome , odds ratio , confounding , thyroiditis , endocrinology , abdominal obesity , thyroid
Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is recognized as the most common autoimmune thyroid disease, often accompanied by the diffuse enlargement of thyroid with abundant blood flow and elevated level of thyroid autoantibodies. As obesity had a positive association with the risk of HT. Thus, this retrospective study was established to further explore the gender relationship between metabolic obesity phenotypes and the risk of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT).