Open AccessIs Waist-height Ratio Associated with Thyroid Antibody Levels in Children with Obesity?
Author(s) -
Bahar Özcabı,
Gürkan Tarçın,
Esma Şengenç,
Feride Bucak,
Oya Ercan,
Murat Bolayırlı,
Olcay Evliyaoğlu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jcrpe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.566
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1308-5735
pISSN - 1308-5727
DOI - 10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2020.2020.0170
Subject(s) - medicine , endocrinology , insulin resistance , thyroid function , body mass index , waist to height ratio , thyroid peroxidase , obesity , thyroid , waist
Obesity is known to affect thyroid function. Recently, waist-height ratio (WHtR) has been considered as a useful marker of subclinical hypothyroidism in obese cases, but its relation with thyroid autoimmunity still remains unclear. We evaluated the effect of body fat mass, WHtR, and metabolic parameters on thyroid autoantibody levels in children with obesity.