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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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Thyroid disorders in India: An epidemiological perspective
Ambika Gopalakrishnan Unnikrishnan, Usha V Menon
Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India
| Date of Web Publication | 29-Jul-2011 |
Correspondence Address:
Ambika Gopalakrishnan Unnikrishnan
Department of Endocrinology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2230-8210.83329
 Abstract | | |
Thyroid diseases are common worldwide. In India too, there is a significant burden of thyroid diseases. According to a projection from various studies on thyroid disease, it has been estimated that about 42 million people in India suffer from thyroid diseases. This review will focus on the epidemiology of five common thyroid diseases in India: (1) hypothyroidism, (2) hyperthyroidism, (3) goiter and iodine deficiency disorders, (4) Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and (5) thyroid cancer. This review will also briefly cover the exciting work that is in progress to ascertain the normal reference range of thyroid hormones in India, especially in pregnancy and children. Keywords: Hypothyroidism, India, thyroid
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| Introduction | |  |
Thyroid diseases are, arguably, among the commonest endocrine disorders worldwide. India too, is no exception. According to a projection from various studies on thyroid disease, it has been estimated that about 42 million people in India suffer from thyroid diseases. [1] Thyroid diseases are different from other diseases in terms of their ease of diagnosis, accessibility of medical treatment, and the relative visibility that even a small swelling of the thyroid offers to the treating physician. Early diagnosis and treatment remain the cornerstone of management.
This article will focus on five selected thyroid diseases (hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, goiter/iodine deficiency disorders, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and thyroid cancer) and will offer an insight into studies on their prevalence. This review will also briefly cover the exciting work that is in progress to ascertain the normal reference range of thyroid hormones in India, especially in pregnancy and children. Rather than being an exhaustive, in-depth review, this article will discuss selected studies from across the country and the implications and perspectives these studies bring forth, from an Indian context.
| Hypothyroidism | | |
Among the various varieties of hypothyroidism, congenital hypothyroidism is probably the most important, as it is requires an early diagnosis, which is usually followed by appropriate therapy that can prevent the onset of brain damage. Studies from Mumbai have suggested that congenital hypothyroidism is common in India, the disease occurring in 1 out of 2640 neonates, when compared with the worldwide average value of 1 in 3800 subjects. [2] There is often a delay in the diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism in the country. This delay is attributable to the lack of awareness about the illness, as well as the lack of facilities available or screening program in place to comprehensively screen and test newborns for this illness.
In childhood too, hypothyroidism can occur. In a clinic-based study from Mumbai, out of 800 children with thyroid disease, 79% had hypothyroidism. Common causes of hypothyroidism in these children were thyroid dysgenesis, dyshormonogenesis, and thyroiditis. [2]
Among adult people in India, the prevalence of hypothyroidism has been recently studied. In this population-based study done in Cochin on 971 adult subjects, the prevalence of hypothyroidism was 3.9%. [3] The prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism was also high in this study, the value being 9.4%. In women, the prevalence was higher, at 11.4%, when compared with men, in whom the prevalence was 6.2%. The prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism increased with age. About 53% of subjects with subclinical hypothyroidism were positive for anti-TPO antibodies. This was a population-based study, which used cluster sampling strategy. [3] In this study, Urinary Iodine Status was studied in 954 subjects from the same population sampled, and the median value was 211 μg/l; this suggested that this population was iodine sufficient.
| Hyperthyroidism | | |
The prevalence of hyperthyroidism has been studied in several studies. In an epidemiological study from Cochin, subclinical and overt hyperthyroidism were present in 1.6% and 1.3% of subjects participating in a community survey. [3] In a hospital-based study of women from Pondicherry, subclinical and overt hyperthyroidism were present in 0.6% and 1.2% of subjects. [4] More than a third of community-detected hyperthyroid cases have positive anti-TPO antibodies, and about 39% of these subjects have a goiter [3] [Figure 1]. | Figure 1: Prevalence of thyroid function abnormalities found in 971 adult subjects form a community study from Kerala, South India.[3]
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| Goiter and Iodine Deficiency | | |
Recent population studies have shown that about 12% of adults have a palpable goiter. [3] Autoimmune thyroid disease is probably commoner than iodine deficiency as a cause of goiter in areas that are now iodine sufficient. However, given that iodine deficiency is a problem in India, the importance of iodine deficiency cannot be underestimated in the Indian context.
The link between endemic goiter and iodine deficiency has been researched in India by several eminent researchers, and this has led to the publication of several important reports. [5],[6],[7] Critical research has resulted in endemic goiter being reported from all over the country and not just from the Himalayan and Sub-Himalayan regions. [1] Researchers from New Delhi had shown that this was linked to iodine deficiency and that this resulted in decompensated hypothyroidism in many cases. [1] This led to landmark studies which showed that iodine deficiency was associated with hypothyroidism in neonates, setting the scene for the now legendary salt iodization program supported by the Government of India. [1] Subsequent to this program, it was shown that in selected regions of Uttar Pradesh, the prevalence of congenital hypothyroidism had come down from 100/1000 to 18/1000. [1] Several landmark studies have been carried out in the area of iodine deficiency disorders in the country. [5],[6],[7]
In the postiodization phase, what happens to the prevalence of goiter? This very important question was answered in an elegantly conducted study. [8] About 14,762 children from all over India were studied for the following characteristics: goiter prevalence, urinary iodine and thiocyanate excretion, functional status of the thyroid, as well as serological and cytopathological markers for thyroid autoimmunity. About 23% of subjects had a goiter. A significantly higher level of median urinary thiocyanate (USCN) excretion was noted in goitrous subjects (0.75 mg/dl) when compared with controls (0.64 mg/dl; P < 0.001). The authors suggested that despite iodization, the prevalence of goiter has not dramatically declined. [8] The researchers noted that thyroid autoimmunity could only partly explain the goiter and concluded that the role of goitrogens is an area that deserves further study.
| Autoimmune Thyroiditis in India | | |
Population studies have suggested that about 16.7% of adult subjects have anti-thyroid peroxidase (TPO) antibodies and about 12.1% have anti-thyroglobulin (TG) antibodies. In this same study of 971 subjects, when subjects with abnormal thyroid function were excluded, the prevalence of anti-TPO and anti-TG antibodies was 9.5% and 8.5%. [3]
In a landmark study of Hashimoto's thyroiditis in India, 6283 schoolgirls from all over the country were screened. [9] Among them, 1810 schoolgirls had a goiter. Among them 764 subjects underwent a fine needle aspiration cytology, and of these subjects, 58 (7.5%) had evidence of juvenile autoimmune thyroiditis (the term included both Hashimoto's thyroiditis and focal lymphocytic thyroiditis). Among fine needle aspiration cytology-confirmed cases of juvenile autoimmune thyroiditis, subclinical and overt hypothyroidism were seen in 15% and 6.5%, respectively. [9]
| Thyroid Cancer and India | | |
The Indian Council of Medical Research established the National Cancer Registry Program, and the NCRP has collected the data of more than 3,00,000 cancer patients between the periods 1984 and 1993. [10] Among these patients, the NCRP noted 5614 cases of thyroid cancer, and this included 3617 females and 2007 males. The six centers involved in the studies were at Mumbai, Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram, Dibrugarh, Chandigarh, and Chennai. Among them, Thiruvananthapuram had the highest relative frequency of cases of thyroid cancer among all cancer cases enrolled in the hospital registry, 1.99% among males and 5.71% among females. The nationwide relative frequency of thyroid cancer among all the cancer cases was 0.1%-0.2%. The age-adjusted incidence rates of thyroid cancer per 100,000 are about 1 for males and 1.8 for females as per the Mumbai Cancer Registry, which covered a population of 9.81 million subjects. The histological types of thyroid cancer were studied in a Hospital Cancer Registry of 1185 "new cases" of thyroid cancer. [11] The commonest cancer type was papillary, followed by follicular cancer, and the results are summarized in [Figure 2]. | Figure 2: Histological type distribution of 1185 "new cases" of thyroid cancer. Figure based on a table published by Gangadharan et al.[11] Anaplastic, Cancer Not-Otherwise Specified and No histology proof-cases, together, accounted for 223 cases in this survey
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| Reference Ranges of Thyroid Function in Pregnancy and Children | | |
In the past 2 years, exciting work has been carried out to understand the thyroid in pregnancy and childhood in India. [12],[13],[14] In the first article, Marwaha et al indicate the normal reference ranges of FT4, FT3, and TSH in pregnant women, and used the 5 th and 85 th percentile to define the reference ranges in the disease-free subjects. The authors report that the trimester-wise values in the first, second, and third trimesters were FT(3) (1.92-5.86, 3.2-5.73, and 3.3-5.18 pM/l), FT(4) (12-19.45, 9.48-19.58, and 11.32-17.7 pM/l), and TSH (0.6-5.0, 0.44-5.78, and 0.74-5.7 IU/ml), respectively. [12] With regard to iodine deficiency during pregnancy, a hospital-based study from Kolkata has suggested that pregnant women from their center were iodine sufficient. [13]
In a large epidemiological study of 24,685 students from all over India published in 2010, the authors attempted to define normative data on thyroid hormone levels in healthy school children. [14] Among them, the authors calculated the reference ranges from the 5343 subjects. In a separate publication in 2008, the same authors studied normative thyroid hormone ranges in 5122 school children, after excluding children who had a personal or family history of thyroid disease, used thyroid medications, had a goiter, and had hypoechogenicity/nodularity on ultrasound or positivity for serum anti-TPO antibodies. [15] The authors reported that for TSH, the 97th percentile was in the range 6.01-8.4 mIU/l for boys and 5.28-8.04 mIU/l for girls. [15] This, as the authors themselves suggest, offers a compelling argument against lowering the reference range of TSH in this population.
| Community-Based Ultrasound Studies in India | | |
Interesting work is in progress to ascertain the predictors of thyroid gland size in an Indian population. In a study of 1002 children from Gujarat, the authors note that the prevalence of goiter was very high (80%) when assessed by ultrasound. This was also a population with a high prevalence of malnutrition (82% subjects were underweight). In this population, the authors note that thyroid size was related to several anthropometric parameters. However, it is not clear whether these results are applicable to the general Indian population. [16] In the state of Gujarat, the same group had reported that iodine deficiency continues to be a problem, as more than 20% of the population had a very low median urinary iodine of <50 ΅g/l. [17] In the same population, the prevalence of hypothyroidism has been reported to be about 7%. [17] The use of ultrasound in population studies of thyroid gland size is an exciting new area for research in the field of thyroid epidemiology. [18],[19],[20]
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| Pradeep Vaideeswar,Saranya Singaravel,Prajakta Gupte | | Indian Heart Journal. 2018; | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 43 |
FNCC VS. FNAC TECHNIQUES IN CASE OF THYROID NODULE - A COMPARATIVE STUDY |
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| Deepa Agnihotri | | Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare. 2018; 5(25): 1873 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 44 |
SOLITARY THYROID NODULE- INCIDENCE AND HISTOPATHOLOGY- A 3-YEAR STUDY |
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| Sheela Varghese,Letha Vilasiniamma | | Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2017; 6(88): 6153 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 45 |
A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY ON THYROID GLAND LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MULTI-NODULAR GOITRE |
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| Priya P V,Elvin Merin Cherian | | Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2017; 6(07): 540 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 46 |
Audiological Profile in Patients with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism |
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Diagnostic Utility of Cord Blood Thyroid Stimulating Hormone in Congenital Hypothyroidism in the Era of Expanded Newborn Screening |
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Statistical Evaluation of Trace Metals, TSH and T4 in Blood Serum of Thyroid Disease Patients in Comparison with Controls |
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Clinicopathological profile of papillary carcinoma of thyroid: A 10-year experience in a tertiary care institute in North Karnataka, India |
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ULTRASOUND SCREENING OF THYROID GLAND AMONG A SECTION OF POPULATION IN CENTRAL KERALA |
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| Ashok Chirathalattu Babu,Mattavana Ramakrishna Pillai Balachandran Nair,Anu Kooliyedathu Balan,Kiran Thilakarajan | | Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare. 2017; 4(50): 3043 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 51 |
DOES FASTING AND POSTPRANDIAL BLOOD SAMPLING FOR THYROID EVALUATION MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN CHILDREN? |
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| Poovazhagi Varadarajan,Arivoli Kaliyan,Suresh Kumar Sankaran,Anupama Sankaran,Nisha Rangabhashyam,Asvatha Chinnarajalu | | Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2017; 6(19): 1515 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 52 |
Access, availability, and infrastructure deficiency: The current management of thyroid disease in the developing world |
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| Jane Fualal,Joel Ehrenkranz | | Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. 2016; | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 53 |
Competency Education of Primary Care Physicians in Management of Thyroid Disorders: Implementation Experiences from a Pan India Certificate Course |
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| Sandeep Bhalla,Deepak Monga,Tanu Soni,Anirudh Gaurang,Shailesh R. Deshpande,Anjali Bhatt,Dorairaj Prabhakaran,Ambika Gopalakrishnan Unnikrishnan | | Thyroid. 2016; 26(12): 1807 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 54 |
A Multi-analyte immunoassay for thyroid related analytes |
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Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report |
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| Geetesh Manik,John Jose,B. Hygriv Rao | | Indian Heart Journal. 2016; | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 56 |
SPECTRUM OF THYROID CARCINOMAS IN COASTAL ANDHRA PRADESH: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY |
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| Madhuri Sepuri,Basumitra Das | | Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare. 2016; 3(71): 3840 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 57 |
PRIMARY OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA IN THYROID DISORDER |
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| Pragati Garg,Ritu Karoli,Simmi Chawla,Nishant Nishant | | Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare. 2016; 3(60): 3270 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 58 |
Significance of TNF-aand the Adhesion Molecules: L-Selectin and VCAM-1 in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma |
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Automated delineation of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images using spatial neutrosophic clustering and level set |
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Application of wavelet techniques for cancer diagnosis using ultrasound images: A Review |
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Hair Trace Elements are Associated with Increased Thyroid Volume in Schoolchildren with Goiter |
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STUDY ON HISTOPATHOLOGICAL SPECTRUM OF FOLLICULAR CELL DERIVED THYROID DISEASES |
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A CLINICAL STUDY OF CUTANEOUS MANIFESTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH THYROID DISORDERS |
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| Venkata Krishna A,Narasimha Prasad K,Subhash Reddy D,Sridevi M | | Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2016; 5(74): 5489 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 64 |
LIPID PROFILE IN OBESE HYPOTHYROID WOMEN RECEIVING THYROXINE – A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY |
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| Rekha Kumari | | Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare. 2016; 3(16): 586 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 65 |
Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Subclinical Hypothyroidism: A Case Control Study in Nepalese Population |
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| Rajendra KC,Saroj Khatiwada,Kishun Deo Mehta,Pratikshya Pandey,Madhab Lamsal,Shankhar Majhi | | Journal of Thyroid Research. 2015; 2015: 1 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 66 |
SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM CURRENT CONCEPTS & M ANAGEMENT STRATEGEIES |
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DIAGNOSTIC UTILITY OF CELL BLOCKS IN THYROID ASPIRATES |
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| Zarika Ahmed,Pranita Medhi,Debojit Das | | Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2015; 4(76): 13221 | | [Pubmed] | [DOI] | | | 68 |
Prevalence of RET/PTC1 and RET/PTC3 gene rearrangements in Chennai population and its correlation with clinical parameters |
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SERUM THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE LEVELS AND TUMOUR PATHOLOGY IN PATIENTS WITH THYROID SWELLINGS |
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STUDY OF SERUM TRANSAMINASES IN HYPOTHYROIDISM |
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Presence of more activating KIR genes is associated with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis |
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