1Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Santosh University, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Hind Institute of Medical Sciences & Hospital
3Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Santosh University, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
4Scholar, Department of Biochemistry, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
5Professor, Department of Medicine, Santosh University, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
6Scholar, Department of Medicine, Santosh University, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: Dr. Preeti Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Santosh University, Ghaziabad, U.P., India, Mob. 09456956187, 09313177768, E-mail: prcdri2003@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 1 October, 2015.
Thyroid hormones evidently play a very important role in regulation of carbohydrate metabolism. The present study was done to understand the association between the Thyroid Disorders and Diabetes Mellitus, the two major endocrinological diaorders. 1000 patients with type-2 DM irrespective of the age and gender both, randomly selected for study. 330 patients showed alterations in the thyroid profile accounting for 33.3% of the total population, 14.4% hypothyroid, 2.9% hyperthyroidism, 11.1% subclinical hypothyroidism and 4.9% subclinical hyperthyroidism. The most common disorder was found to be hypothyroidism.
Therefore DM Type-2 patient are at risk of hypothyroidism and other aforesaid disorders and hence need to screened for thyroid profile.
Thyroid disorders, DM Type-2, Hypothyroidism
