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Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Patients: The current study was conducted at Aleppo University Hospital. Patients attending the rheumatology outpatient clinic diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis where enrolled in the study. 112 patients were diagnosed with RA, (38 males and 74 females). The patients presenting with RA underwent clinical examination, and laboratory evaluation for serum Free T3, Free T4, TSH, TPOAb, and antithyroglobulin antibody. Biochemical methods: All hormones were measured by radioimmunoassay (Immunochemical analyzer Cobas e 411 HITACHI Hoffman Le Roche Company (Switzerland). Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS for windows program. A p-value < 0.05 was considered as significant. Results: RA patients included 38 males (33%) and 74 females (67%). The mean age of all patients was 33.1 ± 6.1 (Table 1). Percentage of thyroid dysfunction in patients with RA is depicted in figure 1. Prevalence of thyroid antibodies is shown in table 2. BES 2014 meeting Liverpool