Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 18 pp 22232—22241
High prevalence of thyroid carcinoma in patients with insulin resistance: a meta-analysis of case-control studies
- 1 Department of Endocrinology and Metabology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan 250014, China
- 2 Department of Endocrinology and Metabology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250014, China
- 3 Division of Endocrinology, Dezhou Municipal Hospital, Dezhou 253000, China
- 4 Division of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Jinan Zhangqiu District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250200, China
- 5 Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
Received: December 23, 2020 Accepted: September 3, 2021 Published: September 22, 2021
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203529How to Cite
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Abstract
The association between insulin resistance and thyroid carcinoma is controversial. We conducted this meta-analysis of association between insulin resistance and thyroid carcinoma. There were 14 studies included in this meta-analysis. Random-effect model was used to merge the weighted mean difference value of fasting serum insulin level and the pooled effect shows that the level of fasting serum insulin is higher in patients with thyroid carcinoma than those of controls (1.88, 95% CI 0.87 to 2.90, P=0.0003). Random-effect model was used to estimate the pooled weighted mean difference and it shows that thyroid carcinoma patients have a higher level of homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) than patients without thyroid carcinoma (0.54, 95% CI 0.29 to 0.78, P<0.0001). Fixed-effect model with the odds ratio of insulin resistance shows that insulin resistance could increase the risk of thyroid carcinoma 216% compared with participants without insulin resistance (3.16, 95% CI 2.09 to 4.77, P<0.0001). In conclusion, insulin resistance might be a risk factor for thyroid carcinoma.
Abbreviations
DTC: differentiated thyroid carcinoma; PTC: Papillary thyroid carcinoma; FTC: Thyroid cancer, follicular; ATC: Thyroid Carcinoma, Anaplastic; MTC: Thyroid cancer, medullary; NOS: Newcastle-Ottawa Scale; WMD: weighted mean difference; SMD: standardized mean difference; CI: confidence intervals; OR: odds ratio; IGF-1: insulin-like growth factor-1.