EVALUATION OF THYROID DISEASES IN HOSPITALIZED GERIATRIC PATIENTS: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW

Mustafa Behçet DeMirBaş, seMa uçak, Zehra sarikaya DeMirBaş

Internal Medicine , Umraniye Trainig and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

 Introduction: To analyse the clinical characteristics and understand the resistance mechanism of bacteria and the independent risk factors of carIntroduction: This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of thyroid diseases and subgroups in hospitalized geriatric patients.

Materials and methods: We retrospectively reviewed demographic characteristics, thyroid function tests, hemogram parameters, thyroid imaging, and thyroid pathology records of 500 inpatients aged >65 years at Umraniye Training and Research Hospital Internal Medicine Clinic between 2013 and 2014. All patients were categorized into two groups for comparison, those aged 65–75 years and those aged >75 years.

Results: In this study, the prevalence of hyperthyroidism, subclinical hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and subclinical hypothy- roidism was 0.6%, 16%, 0.6%, and 2.8%, respectively. In 31 patients who underwent thyroid ultrasound, the thyroid nodule prevalence was 77%. In geriatric patients with hyperthyroidism, the platelet count was low. Anti-thyroglobulin levels were higher in the >74 years group compared with the <75 years group (P = 0.009 and P < 0.01, respectively).

Conclusion: This study reveals that subclinical hyperthyroidism is the leading thyroid pathology in elderly inpatients and that anti-thyroglobulin levels increase as the age advances.