TY - BOOK AU - Sahar Ibrahim Mohammed Abdallah AU - Heba Morad Yusef , AU - Mona Mohamad Fathy , AU - Ula Mabid Aljarhi , TI - Study of the relation between subclinical hypothyroidism and diabetic microvascular complications / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Sahar Ibrahim Mohammed Abdallah , KW - Microvascular complications KW - Subclinical hypothyroidism KW - Type2 diabetes mellitus N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Subclinical hypothyroidism is relatively common in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The aim of this work was to examine a possible association between subclinical hypothyroidism and microvascular complication in type 2 diabetic patients. A total of 100 type 2 diabetic Egyptian patients were randomly selected from our outpatient clinic and screened for thyroid function, microvascular and macrovascular complications. The patients were subsequently divided into two groups: subclinical hypothyroidism group (TSH {u2265} 3.5 oU / ml, n = 12), and euthyroid group TSH < 3.5 oU / ml, n = 88 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -