Title: Prevalence of Thyroid Disease among the Diabetic Patients: A Meta Analysis

Authors: Ankita Sharma, V.K Shivgotra

 DOI:  https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v5i6.98

Abstract

India, being the developing country is facing lot of problems related to thyroid and diabetes. With the widespread availability of thyroid function testing in recent years, numbers of patients with symptoms, which might be attributable to hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, are being tested. The present study aims at finding the prevalence of thyroid disease among the diabetic patients in India. We have incorporated 14 studies from different parts of the country being conducted for testing thyroid problems in diabetic patients and found out that 24.2 % (95% CI 20.73 -27.78) persons of total population were having the thyroid diseases.

Keywords- Prevalence, Thyroid, Diabetes, Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism, Confidence Interval.

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