Thyroid disease in diabetics.
Among a diabetic clinic population of 5,000 there were 113 patients (1.1%) with concurrent clinical thyroid dysfunction (56 hyperthyroid, 57 hypothyroid). Seventy-one (62.8%) of these patients were insulin-dependent and diabetes preceded thyroid disease in 85 (75.2%). Twenty patients were given carbimazole for two or more years and of these 15 (75%) relapsed, a percentage not significantly different from that seen in non-diabetic patients. The value of screening diabetic patients for evidence of thyroid dysfunction is discussed.
D000328:Adult; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006980:Hyperthyroidism / Q000150:complications*; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged