| Objective: Through analyzing the characteristics of in-patients with thyroiddiseases of a tertiary hospital in Dalian from year2002to2012, describing their diseasesituation, to provide evidence for preventive measures.Methods: Collecting data from a tertiary hospital in Dalian from year2002-2012of hospitalized patients with thyroid disease, including eliminating those zerohospitalized days and those medical record information imperfect, totally686cases. Adatabase of information was set up using Excel2003software, statistical analysis wasconducted by SPSS13.0software. Data were analyzed according to age, sex,occupation, discharge conditions, different disease diagnosis. Descriptive analysis wereadopted to describe the general characteristics of these patients.Results: From year2002-2012, thyroid disease showed a trend of increasing yearby year, the hospital for11years to receive a total of686patients with thyroid disease,male: female is1:3.98. All showed a trend of significant increase in men and women,among them, those patients ages50~60accounted for37.8%. Most patients diagnosedwith hyperthyroidism, accounting for37.5%of the total number of cases. Retiredworkers accounting for37.4%of the total number of people. From year2002to year2012, the number of patients with hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism,thyroid noduleand thyroid carcinoma all have been increased, among them, the proportion of patientswith hyperthyroidism gradually decreased while the proportion of patients withhypothyroidism and thyroid nodule increased.Conclusion: Those factors that affect the inpatients with thyroid disease are gender,age, occupation, disease constitution, etc.. Among them, the gender is the main factor. itis important to control these factors for prevention, early diagnosis, early treatment ofthyroid disease. |