Frecuencia de hipertiroidismo en pacientes del Instituto Nacional de Cáncer SOLCA-Cuenca en el periodo 2017-2019

Abstract

Background: Conditions to the thyroid glands can be find in 40% of patients who attend an endocrinology consultation in Ecuador, where it´s well known that complications with the thyroid have increased, reaching 8.5% of cases, especially in women, which rate correspond from 1% to 3%. However, information about hyperthyroidism in Ecuador is scarce, referring to data from isolated studies, which do not consider associated variables and factors of origin and incidence by diagnostic criteria. Objective: Determine the frequency of hyperthyroidism in patients who attended an outpatient clinic at SOLCACUENCA in the 2017-2019 period. Methodology: An observational and retrospective study was carry out, where a non-probabilistic convenience sampling methodology was applied through inclusion and exclusion criteria to select the data that were subject to analysis. One thousand six hundred forty one medical records were analyzed using the SPSS version 25 for Windows program, which facilitated the tabulation of data and their presentation through tables. Results: As a result, the incidence of hyperthyroidism between 2017 and 2019 was 12.11%, with thyroid goiter being the diagnosis with the highest incidence (93.5%), the female sex with an incidence of 93.0%, the age with the highest incidence between 27 and 59 years (72.4%). The province with the highest incidence of hyperthyroidism was Azuay (57.3%) due to the sample date being part in majority from the province itself. In addition, the occupation that suffers the most is a housewife with 48.7%.