Predictors of Glaser and Styne for Early Remission of Hyperthyroidism in a Child with a Goiter

 

Early remission was defined as remission within 2 years of starting antithyroid medications.

 

Parameters:

(1) size of the goiter (see 13.08.33, above)

(2) Z-score for the body mass index (BMI) of the child (referred to as the BMI SD score in the paper)

 

Z score =

= ((child's BMI) - (mean for BMI for age, gender, race)) / (standard deviation for BMI for age, gender, race)

Size of the Goiter	Body Mass Index Z-score	Percent Early Remission
minimal or small	<= -0.5	31%
minimal or small	> -0.5	86%
moderate to large	<= -0.5	13%
moderate to large	> -0.5	23%

 

Since the mean and standard deviation date may not be readily available it should be possible to correlate below normal, low normal, normal, etc. with the Z-score.