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Association between thyroid hormones and diabetic kidney disease in Chinese adults

BMC Endocr Disord. 2023 Mar 8;23(1):56. doi: 10.1186/s12902-023-01299-1.

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to explore the association between thyroid hormones and different stages of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in Chinese adults.

METHODS: This is a retrospective study involving 2,832 participants. DKD was diagnosed and classified according to the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) categories. Effect sizes are expressed as odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI).

RESULTS: After propensity score matching (PSM) on age, gender, hypertension, hemoglobin A1c(HbA1c), total cholesterol (TC), serum triglyceride (TG) and duration of diabetes, per 0.2 pg/mL increment in serum free triiodothyronine (FT3) was significantly associated with 13%, 22% and 37% reduced risk of moderate-risk (OR, 95% CI, P: 0.87, 0.70-0.87, < 0.001), high-risk (0.78, 0.70-0.87, < 0.001) and very-high-risk (0.63, 0.55-0.72, < 0.001) DKD stages relative to the low-risk DKD stage, respectively. After PSM analyses, serum FT4 and TSH showed no statistical significance in risk estimates for all DKD stages. To facilitate clinical application, a nomogram prediction model was established for the moderate-risk, high-risk and very-high-risk DKD stages, with decent accuracy.

CONCLUSION: Our results indicate that high concentrations of serum FT3 were associated with the significantly reduced risk of having moderate-risk to very-high-risk DKD stages.

PMID:36882783 | DOI:10.1186/s12902-023-01299-1

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