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Table 2 Percentage of subjects with Se levels below the threshold for optimal plasma glutathione peroxidase [45]

From: 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

 

% of patients with

Study groups

low Se

sufficient Se

Controls

33,0

67,0

Ski jumpers

50,0

50,0

Ski runners

43,1

56,9

Children hypothyroidism

48,9

51,1

Children Hashimoto

46,4

53,6

Children hyperthroidism

75,0

25,0

Children polyendocrinopathy

66,7

33,3

Thyroid normal

49,5

50,5

Thyroid immunogenic

46,6

53,4

Subacute thyroiditis

76,0

24,0

Silent thyroiditis

84,6

15,4

follicular Ca

64,3

35,7

foll papillary Ca

63,6

36,4

giant cell papillary Ca

40,0

60,0

invasive Ca

75,0

25,0

papillary Ca

52,1

47,9