Adiposity Is Associated with a Higher Risk of Thyroid Malignancy in Patients with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.

Diagnostics (Basel) · 2025 · PMC11989203 · PMID 40218202

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Additionally, overweight and obese patients tended to have more thyroid nodules (mean ± SD: 2.91 ± 2.11) than normal-weight patients (2.36 ± 1.79), a difference approaching marginal significance ( p = 0.06).

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Although trends were observed towards more frequent highly suspicious ultrasonographic patterns and a higher number of nodules in overweight and obese patients, these did not reach statistical significance.

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