The impact of thyroid dysfunction and TSH on the pathogenesis of gallstone and its composition

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Objectives : to study the impact of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels and thyroid dysfunction on the pathogenesis of gallstones and their compositions.

Methodology : a study is applied including measuring of TSH levels in serum blood of (100) patients with gallstones diagnosed by sonogr aphically or current cholecystectomy (from April 2009–April 2011) with regarded to the differences between sex of patients and predominated of gallstone type with age .

The researcher used statistical analysis ( Chi X2 test) to the data.

Results : the search results showed significant increase in the rate of pathogenesis in female, but TSH levels is higher in male than female (p < 0.001).

And cholesterol gallstone type is predominated (p < 0.0001).

Current results were stated that the thyroid dysfunction had a role in the formation of gallstones.

Conclusion : there is a significant association between the gallstones and thyroid dysfunction Recommendations : the study recommends that must handling and treatment the thyroid dysfunction and hormonal dysfunction especially TSH.