Abstract
Background
The aim of our study was to evaluate clinical, laboratory and imaging findings and to have an idea about the clinical course of subclinical hypothyroidism in children.
Methods
Our study included 25 patients who were diagnosed with non-autoimmune subclinical hypothyroidism without goitre, between the ages of 3 and 18 and with body mass index (BMI) below the 85th percentile.
Results
The mean thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level was 6.92±0.92 μIU/mL at diagnosis, 4.77±1.57 μIU/mL in the third month and 4.51±1.79 μIU/mL in the first year of follow-up. About 73.7% of subclinical hypothyroidism was recovered. There was no statistically significant difference between heart rate, diastolic blood pressure, lipid profile, fasting blood glucose (FBG), fasting insulin level, homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), hemoglobin, white blood cell, platelet, C-reactive protein (CRP) levels and thyroid volume at diagnosis and in the first year of follow-up. In the first year of follow-up, systolic blood pressure and high-sensitivity CRP value were significantly higher than at diagnosis. However, it was observed that these values were similar in the present group with subclinical hypothyroidism.
Conclusions
We concluded that there was no progression to overt hypothyroidism during 1-year follow-up and that subclinical hypothyroidism had no effect on height standard deviation score (SDS), BMI SDS, blood pressure, glucose and lipid metabolism during follow-up without treatment.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organisation(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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