Evaluation of Thyroid Hormone Status of Clinical and Subclinical Thyrotoxicosis Patients

In total, 239 assays are performed in 83 thyrotoxicosis patients. Biochemical confirmation of thyrotoxicosis is based on the finding of a suppressed TSH in combination with elevated serum total or free T4 and T3 levels. The present study observes that the most common cause of thyrotoxicosis is Graves’ disease (64%), followed by thyroiditis (20%), toxic adenoma (9%), and multinodular goiter (2%). The pattern is inconclusive in 5% of all the patients. Serum T3, T4 and TSH patterns are further analysed stratifying the patients into two subgroups, with clinical (88%) and subclinical (12%) thyrotoxicosis. The Graves’ disease is found to be approximately 2.5 times common in women than in men. It is also noticeable that majority of the patients with Graves’ disease were predominantly in the younger age groups that’s why they are in high risk. The present results are also compared with the reported data and found to be fairly in good agreement.