%0 Journal Article
%A Romero-Gómez, Benjamín
%A Guerrero-Alonso, Paula
%A Carmona-Torres, Juan Manuel
%A Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Diana P
%A Laredo-Aguilera, José Alberto
%A Cobo-Cuenca, Ana Isabel
%T Health-Related Quality of Life in Levothyroxine-Treated Hypothyroid Women and Women without Hypothyroidism: A Case-Control Study.
%D 2020
%@ 2077-0383
%U https://hdl.handle.net/10668/28229
%X The use of levothyroxine is not always related to the elimination of the symptoms of hypothyroidism. The aim of this study is to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of a group of hypothyroid women under levothyroxine treatment with that of a group of non-hypothyroid women. A case-control study was performed. We used convenience sampling. The case group consisted of 152 levothyroxine-treated hypothyroid women; the control group consisted of 238 women without hypothyroidism disorders. All of the participants were euthyroid according to the clinical practice guidelines. We used as instruments the Short Form-12 questionnaire (SF-12v1) and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Hypothyroid women scored significantly lower in HRQOL in SF-12v1 mental and physical components than the control group (mental component summary: 41.23 ± 12.12 vs. 46.45 ± 10.22, p  Despite being euthyroid, women with hypothyroidism showed a poorer quality of life than women without hypothyroidism. Health professionals need to assess the HRQOL of women with hypothyroidism. Further research on HRQOL and hypothyroidism is needed.
%K health
%K hypothyroidism
%K quality of life
%K thyroid hormone
%K women
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