DOI: 10.36347/sasjm

Pages: 168-171

This cross sectional study was aimed at estimating the prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism in newly detected type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. The study included 140 newly detected type 2 diabetics taken from outpatient department of medicine and diabetology, kilpauk medical college and hospital (Chennai). In the study, 25% of newly detected diabetics had thyroid dysfunction. In patients with abnormal thyroid function, 23.6% had subclinical hypothyroidism. It was found there is significant correlation between thyroid dysfunction and female gender, body mass index, family history of diabetes and dyslipidemia. Materials used include questionnaire, BMI calculation, blood pressure, FBS, PPBS, blood urea, serum creatinine, urinalysis, ECG, fasting lipid profile, thyroid profile