Correlation of thyroid gland volume with age and gender in a subset of Karachi population

ABSTRACT

Background: Thyroid gland volume [TGV] is highly variable as it is greatly influenced by age, gender, anthropometric measurements and geographical location. It has become essential for every population to determine reference range of their normal thyroid gland volume [TGV] in healthy individuals. This in turn will help the population in grading of goiter and will guide in large scale iodine monitoring programs