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Table 2 Blood sugar and Calcium levels among study population

From: Monitoring of Hypocalcaemia & Hyperglycemia predictive consequences of Thyroidectomy

 

Calcium level

P-value

Random blood sugar

P-value

Normal

Hypo

Controlled

Hyper

Age (Mean ± SD)

46 ± 4.514

47 ± 4.412

0.32*

46 ± 4.141

50 ± 4.822

0.021*

Sex

      

  Male

105 (32.3)

86 (33.9)

0.89

119 (33.9)

72 (31.6)

 

  Female

220 (67.7)

168 (66.1)

 

232 (66.1)

156 (68.4)

0.77

Clinical diagnosis

      

  Cancer

30 (9.2)

180 (70.9)

 

49 (14.0)

161 (70.6)

  Adenoma

137 (42.2)

34 (13.4)

0.01

149 (42.4)

22 (9.6)

  Inflammatory

35 (10.8)

27 (10.6)

42 (12.0)

20 (8.8)

0.001

  Goiter

123 (37.8)

13 (5.1)

 

111 (31.6)

25 (11.0)

 

LOS (Mean ± SD)

4.55 ± 4.14

6.82 ± 5.87

0.020*

4.38 ± 5.05

4.98 ± 5.72

0.78*

  1. LOS, Length of Stay; *P vale from Student T-test, Chi-square for rest.