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Table 1 Cross-sectional and cohort studies on the association between thyroid hormones and chronic kidney disease

From: Interrelationship between thyroid hormones and reduced renal function, a review article

First author(year)

Type of Study

Country

Sample size

Setting

Mean age

Follow-up Time

Result (TSH)

Result (FT4)

Result (FT3)

Result (TPO Ab)

Layal Chaker (2016)

cohort

Netherlands

5103

Population-based study

(Rotterdam)

63.6

8.1 years

Negative association with eGFR and CKD incidence(OR = 0.85)

No association

Not assessed

Not assessed

X. Huang(2016)

cohort

Shanghai

2103

Community-based study

59.3

4 years

Not significant

Positive correlation with CKD incidence (OR = 1.88)

Not significant

Not assessed

Gordon Williams

(2021)

cross-sectional

US

789

Population-based study

45.94

 

Negative correlation with RPF in euthyroids

Not assessed

Not assessed

Not assessed

Ulla T. Schultheiss

(2017)

cohort

US

12,785

Community-based study

(ARIC study)

57.4

19.6 years

No association

Positive association with incident CKD

No association

No association

Peggy Sekula

(2020)

cohort

European

4600

Population-based study

(German chronic kidney disease study)

60

4 years

Not assessed

No association

Negative association with renal events (ESRD, AKI, renal death)

Not assessed

Yasuji Arase

(2019)

cohort

Japan

7609

Hospital-based study

(Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo)

54

3 years

Higher normal TSH: positive association with incident CKD (OR = 0.86)

Above normal TSH: positive association with incident CKD (OR = 1.58)

Not assessed

Not assessed

Not assessed

Eliseo Guallar

(2014)

cohort

South Korean

104,633

Population-based study

(Kangbuk Samsung Health Study)

38

3.5 years

Positive association with incident CKD ( baseline HR = 1.59, time-varying HR = 1.61)

No association

Negative association with incident CKD (HR = 0.95 )

Not assessed

Sijue Yang

(2021)

case-control

China

2831

Hospital-based study

(China Medical University)

51.08

 

Negative correlation with eGFR

Not assessed

Not assessed

Not assessed

Binbin Pan

(2019)

cross-sectional

China

905

Hospital-based study

52.6

 

No association

No association

Positive correlation with eGFR

Not assessed

Keisuke Endo

(2023)

cohort

Japan

10,392

population-based study

48

10 years

Positive association with incident CKD in TSH levels > 4.2 ( HR = 1.41) in men but not in woman

Not assessed

Not assessed

Not assessed