Carissa Juliana R de Luzuriaga-Balaria, Jerome V Cleofas, Rene M Nob
Work-life balance and online student engagement among registered nurses enrolled in online graduate nursing education: a mixed methods study
Contemporary nurse
diabetes thyroid disorders two common disorders amongst endocrine diseases uncontrolled diabetes mellitus dm may disturb thyroid metabolism disturbing levels thyroid hormones plasma study undertaken determine prevalence thyroid dysfunction type 2 diabetic population presenting public sector tertiary care teaching hospital descriptive crosssectional study conducted civil hospital karachi chk department medicine october 01 2018 march 31 2019 study population consisted 317 patients diagnosed dm type 2 based american diabetes association ada criteria patients fasting blood sugar 126 mgdl hba1c 65 2 h postprandial blood glucose levels 200 mgdl included minimum 8 h fasting plasma samples patients collected sent fasting blood glucose hba1c ft3 ft4 thyroidstimulating hormone tsh descriptive statistics calculated poststratification chisquared test applied p value 005 considered significant among enrolled dm type 2 patients 207 653 male mean age 4654 872 years mean fasting blood sugar fbs random blood sugar rbs hba1c 21276 2691 mgdl 32889 5289 mgdl 943 247 respectively mean duration dm 781 315 years mean ft3 ft4 tsh 11313 4440 ngdl 763 311 mgdl 264 257 miuml respectively present study 55 174 patients subclinical hypothyroidism 27 85 hypothyroidism 19 60 hyperthyroidism 16 50 subclinical hyperthyroidism significant association thyroid dysfunction established age group female gender family history thyroid dysfunction p 0001 prevalence thyroid dysfunction higher among patients type 2 diabetes mellitus t2dm hypothyroidism common dysfunction prevalence among female patients