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 3 Se levels expressed in percentage of threshold levels in relation to deiodinases (IDI), plasma glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and selenoprotein P (SePP) [41,42]

	measured mean Se	Se related parameters and their threshold levels in μM
		IDI	GPx	SePP
	μM	0,82	1,2	1,7
Controls	1,14	139,51 *	95,33	67,29
Ski jumpers	1,05	128,21	87,61	61,84
Ski runners	1,09	133,50	91,22	64,39
Children Hypothyroidism	1,04	126,38	86,36	60,96
Children Hashimoto	0,98	119,33	81,54	57,56
Children hyperthyroidism	0,83	101,67	69,48	49,04
Children Poly	0,85	103,19	70,51	49,77
Thyroid normal	1,02	124,97	85,40	60,28
Thyroid immunogenic	1,04	126,39	86,37	60,96
Subacute thyroiditis	0,84	102,29	69,90	49,34
Silent thyroiditis	0,75	91,40	62,45	44,09
anaplastic Ca	1,20	146,46	100,08	70,64
follicular Ca	0,97	118,54	81,00	57,18
foll.-papillary Ca	0,87	106,14	72,53	51,20
giant cell papillary Ca	1,06	129,02	88,16	62,23
invasive Ca	0,95	115,31	78,79	55,62
microcarcinoma	0,86	104,98	71,74	50,64
papillary Ca	1,02	123,95	84,70	59,79
unclassified Ca	0,96	117,02	79,96	56,45
All (n = 1401)	1,06	129,81	88,71	62,62

*: the figures are given as percent of the threshold level (% = measured Se concentration * 100/threshold level)

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