Background:
Thyroid diseases are common worldwide. In India too, there is a significant
burden of thyroid diseases and 42 million people in India are estimated to
suffer from them. Environmental factors pose a significant risk of thyroid
dysfunction under certain circumstances which may be intentional, inadvertent,
or accidental. The need to investigate the potential harm posed by these
factors in the quantities commonly encountered is emphasized. And along with
this, there is ignorance and a lack of perception about this problem.
Objective: To
study the prevalent risk factors (non-modifiable and modifiable) of
hypothyroidism and to estimate the strength of the association of these risk
factors and the occurrence of the disease.
Materials and
Methods: This case-control study was conducted at a teaching hospital, in
Punjab, India. A predesigned and pretested questionnaire was used to collect
data. A total of 108 cases with hypothyroidism and 107 control subjects were
included in this study.
Results: About
54.33% of hypothyroid cases were observed to be lying in the age group of >
40-50 years out of which 6.14% were male and 93.8% female cases. There was a
significant association between modifiable risk factors (pollution, type of
diet and cooking oil) and hypothyroidism, while non-modifiable risk factors
(age, weight) were not significantly associated.
Conclusion:
Hypothyroidism is a common prevailing disorder in the adult Indian population.
Hypothyroidism is a disease of multifactorial causation.
Author(s)details:-
Jagminder Bajaj
Department of Pharmacology, PIMS, Jalandhar, India.
Shalini Salwan
Department of Pharmacology, PIMS, Jalandhar, India.
Poonam Salwan
Department of Pharmacology, FMHS, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
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here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rudhr/v8/11878F
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