Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome

Table 3 Correlation analysis between thyroid function and phenotypic variables of interest in the obese group as a whole, after controlling for age, gender, BMI and use of metformin

From: The impact of the metabolic phenotype on thyroid function in obesity

Variables	TSH		fT4
	r	p	r	p
Age	−0.05	0.1	−0.08	0.01
BMI	0.05	0.09	−0.09	0.006
Waist	0.04	0.3	0.02	0.5
Percent fat mass	0.09	0.02	0.07	0.06
Cholesterol	0.506	0.09	−0.02	0.5
HDL	0.03	0.3	0.13	0.001
LDL	0.04	0.3	−0.05	0.1
Triglycerides	0.05	0.2	−0.07	0.06
Insulin	0.01	0.7	−0.03	0.3
HOMA-IR	0.01	0.8	−0.04	0.2
HOMA-B	0.02	0.5	0.01	0.7
AST	0.03	0.4	−0.07	0.06
ALT	−0.003	0.9	−0.003	0.9
γGT	0.004	0.2	−0.03	0.4
Alkaline phosphatase	−0.13	0.001	0.09	0.02

Italic values indicate p-values
Underlined values indicate significance
Italic underlined values indicate statistically significant p-values
Age and BMI were omitted as covariates when measured as independent variables

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