New Anthropometric Measurements: Relationship to Thyroid Functions in Euthyroid Obese Subjects

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, respectively. TSH was found to be negatively correlated with ABSI (p = 0.006) and positively correlated with BAI (p < 0.001), but a statistically significant relationship with BRI (p = 0.193) was not determined. Free T4 was not associated with any of the anthropometric measurements.While fT3 was determined to be positively correlated with ABSI (p = 0.008) and negatively correlated with PBF and BAI (p = 0.001, p = 0.002, respectively), no statistically significant relationship with fT3 and BRI was determined. Conclusion TSH is positively correlated with measurements of adiposity such as BMI, PBF, BAI while indexes in which abdominal obesity increases, such as waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and ABSI, are correlated with fT3 levels.