Table 3 Health-related life quality in HT patients and healthy controls.

From: Thyroid antibodies in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis patients are positively associated with inflammation and multiple symptoms

Variables

HT Group (n = 108)

Control group (n = 57)

P value

Physical functioning

95 (85, 100)

95 (88, 100)

0.313

Role-emotional

67 (33, 100)

100 (67, 100)

0.059

Role-physical

100 (75, 100)

100 (100, 100)

0.290

Bodily pain

94 (84, 100)

100 (94, 100)

0.004

General health

77 (65, 92)

92 (81, 97)

 < 0.001

Vitality

65 (50, 75)

80 (65, 80)

0.001

Social functioning

75 (75, 100)

100 (75, 100)

0.028

Mental health

60 (48, 76)

72 (62, 80)

0.017

Health transition

50 (25, 50)

50 (50, 50)

0.223

  1. Data are presented as medians and interquartile ranges for non-normally distributed variables.
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