The Association Between COVID-19 and Thyroxine Levels: A Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Recently, a number of reports have described the potential relationship between COVID-19 and thyroid hormones, but the results were conflicting. We performed a meta-analysis to evaluate the effect of the severity of COVID-19 on thyroid-related hormones and the effect of thyroid-related hormones on the outcome of COVID-19 in order to try to confirm the association between the serum levels of free triiodothyronine (FT3), free thyroxine (FT4) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and the severity or mortality of coronavirus-19 patients.

Methods

The methodology was already registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) database, and the protocol number is CRD42021269246. Systematic searches were carried out on the Cochrane Librar

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8763686 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature