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Table 1 Demographic, clinical, laboratory characteristics and prevalence of VDR FokI polymorphism of T1DM patients according to presence or absence of thyroid dysfunction (TD)

From: High frequency of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism FokI in Brazilian Type 1 diabetes mellitus patients with clinical autoimmune thyroid disease

 

With TD

Without TD

p

n (%)

25 (13.9)

155 (86.1)

 

Gender (female %)

72.0

48.4

0.02

Age (years)

16.8 ± 7.1

17.1 ± 5.0

0.28

Age at diagnosis of diabetes (years)

10.0 ± 4.0

10.2 ± 5.1

0.80

TDDM (years)

6.9 ± 6.3

6.9 ± 5.2

0.72

Age at diagnosis of TD (years)

13.8 ± 6.5

 

BMI (kg/m2)

21.3 ± 3.2

22.0 ± 3.6

0.18

TSH (mUI/mL)

19.1 ± 59.0

2.2 ± 1.4

0.00

TPO Ab positive (%)

80.0

25.0

<0.001

GAD Ab positive (%)

56.0

30.3

0.01

IA2 Ab positive (%)

36.0

43.1

0.50

FCP (ng/mL)

0.18 ± 0.29

0.19 ± 0.42

0.77

A1c (%)

9.3 ± 1.6

9.2 ± 1.8

0.75

ff/Ff genotypes (%)

73.9

52.7

0.05

  1. Data are expressed as mean ± SD unless otherwise indicated
  2. TDDM time of duration of diabetes, FCP fasting serum C-peptide