forty-nine diabetics with primary thyroid failure , as indicated by an elevated tsh concentration ( tsh 38.0 +/- 5.4 mu/l , t4 63.0 +/- 4.0 nmol/l ) , without overt clinical evidence of hypothyroidism , had a higher ( p less than 0.025 ) mean plasma cholesterol concentration ( 6.8 +/- 0.2 nmol/l vs 6.0 +/- 0.2 nmol/l ) than 49 euthyroid diabetics ( tsh 3.16 +/- 0.2 mu/l , t4 99.1 +/- 2.81 nmol/l ) of equivalent age , sex , weight , diabetic treatment and duration of diabetes .
C0040132
thyroid
C0020676
hypothyroidism