The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 6 Effect of thyroid profile on lipid profile

From: Effect of anti-epileptic drugs usage on thyroid profile in Egyptian epileptic children

	Thyroid code												ANOVA
	Normal			Hypothyroid			Subclinical hypothyroid			Subclinical hyperthyroid			ANOVA
	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	F	P-value
T4	1.175	±	0.389	0.421	±	0.257	0.887	±	0.224	1.151	±	0.518	46.927	< 0.001*
TSH	2.017	±	0.988	1.644	±	1.388	7.728	±	0.651	0.914	±	2.165	45.895	< 0.001*
Total cholesterol	181.518	±	35.317	200.449	±	31.685	204.167	±	13.393	200.600	±	30.689	4.323	0.006*
Triglyceride	109.776	±	35.993	133.143	±	26.225	143.833	±	25.725	123.267	±	30.642	6.649	< 0.001*
HDL-cholesterol	43.247	±	12.151	37.143	±	8.473	40.667	±	9.852	37.133	±	6.232	4.060	0.008*
LDL-cholesterol	116.835	±	31.843	143.102	±	23.498	140.000	±	18.623	135.933	±	31.497	9.322	< 0.001*

Tukey's test
	I&II	I&III	I&IV	II&III	II&IV	III&IV
T4	< 0.001*	0.240	0.995	0.018*	< 0.001*	0.436
TSH	0.357	< 0.001*	0.012*	< 0.001*	0.210	< 0.001*
Total cholesterol	0.010*	0.375	0.175	0.994	1.000	0.996
Triglyceride	0.001*	0.066	0.447	0.871	0.730	0.555
HDL-cholesterol	0.008*	0.939	0.169	0.868	1.000	0.900
LDL-cholesterol	< 0.001*	0.237	0.092	0.995	0.837	0.991

TSH thyroid stimulating hormone, HDL high-density lipoprotein, LDL low-density lipoprotein, SD standard deviation, ANOVA analysis of variance. P value < 0.05 statistically significant, P value < 0.01 statistically highly significant

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