Effect of hashimoto disease in diabetic patients in national center for diabetes

Abstract EN

The most two common autoimmune disease in endocrinology was Diabetes mellitus (DM) and thyroid dysfunction (TD).

This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of TD in DM patients of type 1.

The current study is carried out in the National Center for Diabetes of Endocrine and Genetic (NCDEG), AL- Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad.

This study comprised of (36) patients with hypothyroidism diagnosed clinically under supervision of specialist physician in endocrinology.

Their ages ranged between (30-40) years, among them there were 17 males (48%) and 19 females (52%).

In addition there were (36) healthy control their age ranged between (28-42) years, among them there were 21 males (58%) and 15 females (42%).

Results showed highly significant increase in the rate of Chol, TSH, T3, and FBS in patient group when compared with healthy subject (p<0.001), also highly significant decrease of T4 (p<0.001).

The prevalence of thyroid dysfunction among type 1 DM patients is very high with hypothyroidism is being most common.

This study recommended that screening of thyroid function must be done especially in uncontrolled diabetic patients