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Jeongmin Lee1, Jeonghoon Ha2, Kwanhoon Jo3
1Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 03391, Korea. 082mdk45@catholic.ac.kr.
Abstract:
Background: We aimed to evaluate the association between thyroid hormone (free thyroxine, free T4) level and lipid profiles in nationally representative data. Methods: This study was based on cross-sectional survey data from the sixth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV. After exclusion of subjects with a history of thyroid disease or abnormal thyroid function test and those on medication for dyslipidemia and/or cardiovascular disease, a total of 3548 subjects were included in the study. Results: There was a significant decrease in serum triglyceride levels and increase in serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels with high free T4 quartiles after adjustment for confounding factors (p for trend = 0.001 and p for trend = 0.014, respectively). Risk of hypertriglyceridemia was significantly decreased (odds ratio of 0.72 (95% confidential interval 0.53-0.98)) in the highest free T4 quartile compared to the lowest free T4 quartile, p = 0.044). Conclusions: Serum free T4 levels within normal range negatively correlated with serum triglyceride level and positively correlated with HDL-cholesterol level. Therefore, a close surveillance in terms of lipid profiles could be considered in subjects with low normal serum free T4 levels.
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