First the author classified pulmonary tuberculosis patients into two groups: Patients without any aggravations in their anamnesis belonged to the “better group” and patients who have had aggravations in the anamnesis belonged to the “worse group”.
Secondly, according to the degree of improvement of their chest x-ray photographs pulmonary tuberculosis patients were classified into two types the “better type” and the “constant type”.
The thyroid functions were studied on each cases individually.
Furthermore, in proportion as the confidence limit in PBI (protein bound iodine) rate among healthy human beings, the PBI rate among the pulmonary tuberculosis patients were classified into three groups; higher group (more than 5.85γ/dl), the ordinary group (5.85-5.22γ/dl) and the lower group (less than 5.22γ/dl).
1) It is interesting that the individual FBI rate is far more widely distributed among the worse or the constant groups than among the better group. The cases of their higher PBI group showed no difference between better, worse and constant groups. However, in the “ordinary” cases, more difference was noticed in the better group than in the worse.
And the cases of lower group more difference was noticed in the “worse” category than in the better whereas the constant type had trends to be found more frequent than the better type.
2) The significant difference is noticed that individual basal metabolic rate shows wider distribution in the worse and the constant than that of the better.
3) The significant difference is also noticed that each I
131 up-take rate by the thyroid gland after 1, 3, 5 and 24 hours shows wider distribution in the worse and the constant than in the better. Especially after 24 hours all cases of the better group are found to be within normal range. While some cases of either worse group or constant type are not found within the normal range.
Summarily, among the pulmonary tuberculosis patients, anamnesis with or without occurance of aggravation and the degree of improvement which is found on the chest x-ray photographs varies the thyroid function.
It seems that the function is more unstable among the worse group and the constant type than that of the better group.
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