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The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 3 Correlation between levothyroxine dose with age and body weight in each group

From: Real-world derived weight-based levothyroxine doses to achieve optimal thyrotropin target in different degrees of autoimmune hypothyroidism

 

Levothyroxine dose

Group 1

(n = 87)

Group 2

(n = 95)

Group 3

(n = 75)

Group 4

(n = 91)

Age (years)

rs

0.040

0.188

− 0.064

− 0.011

p

0.710

0.068

0.584

0.918

Body weight (kg)

rs

0.426*

0.521*

0.744*

0.538*

p

< 0.001*

< 0.001*

< 0.001*

< 0.001*

  1. Group 1 mild subclinical hypothyroidism, Group 2 severe subclinical hypothyroidism, Group 3 overt hypothyroidism, Group 4 hypothyroidism unknown
  2. rs Spearman coefficient
  3. *Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05
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