Abstract
Background and Objectives: Thyroid disorder is one of the most common endocrine disorders worldwide. A community‑based investigations showed that; overall occurrence of thyroid disease was 20.43%, highest incidence of diffuse goiter (7.35%), followed by sub-clinical hypothyroidism (6.59%), hypothyroidism (4.97%), hyperthyroidism (0.86%) and sub-clinical hyperthyroidism (0.65%) in Khulna, Bangladesh. High prevalence of hypothyroidism with autoimmunity are also observed in Khulna Region. The aim of this study was to conduct epidemiological survey of hypothyroid patients in Khulna region.
Methods: This cross‑sectional study was done on Hypothyroid patients of Khulna Medical College Hospital and Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Science (INMAS), Khulna, from July 2023 to December 2023. After having informed written consent of adult sixty hypothyroid patients, was interviewed and examined the blood sample for relevant information; data recorded in a preformed, semi-structured data collection sheet (Patient particulars form) and analyzed.
Results: Out of the sixty hypothyroid patients about fifty percent was obese, eighty percent was female of 30-60 years age group. Ninety percent of them belongs to poor socioeconomic conditions and came from rural area of Khulna district. About 20 percent had positive family history of hypothyroidism, 27 percent patient was associated with other autoimmune diseases and about 80 percent was associated with anti-thyroid antibody.
Conclusions: Most of the patients were rural female of low socioeconomic back ground of reproductive age groups. They also associated with other autoimmune diseases. Chronic autoimmune diseases, poverty, anti-thyroid antibody and salinity of environment may play an important role for the causation of hypothyroidism in Khulna region.
Keywords: Thyroid disorder, hypothyroidism, dyslipidemia, thyroiditis.
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Corresponding Author
Dr. Utpal Kumar Chanda
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Khulna Medical College, Khulna, Bangladesh
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v12i06.06
