The role of selenium, vitamin C, and zinc in benign thyroid diseases and of selenium in malignant thyroid diseases: Low selenium levels are found in subacute and silent thyroiditis and in papillary and follicular carcinoma

Table 1 Zn and vitamin C levels in the patients with benign thyroid disease

		n	mean	S.D.	SEM	95% confidence interval		minimum	maximum
						low	high
Zinc	Normal thyroid	276	0,95	0,20	0,01	0,92	0,97	0,41	1,66
	Immunogenic thyroid disease	118	0,97	0,19	0,02	0,94	1,01	0,60	1,43
	Subacute thyroiditis	31	0,96	0,21	0,04	0,88	1,04	0,42	1,48
	All	425	0,96	0,20	0,01	0,94	0,98	0,41	1,66
Vit. C	Normal thyroid	273	6,07	2,94	0,18	5,72	6,42	1,80	13,6
	Immunogenic thyroid disease	112	6,10	2,63	0,25	5,61	6,59	1,10	13,2
	Subacute thyroiditis	29	6,48	3,12	0,58	5,29	7,66	0,70	12,8
	All	414	6,11	2,87	0,14	5,83	6,39	0,70	13,6

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