| Summary: | Hypothyroidism is a clinical and biochemical syndrome. The objectives of this study were to describe and establish the most prevalent clinical and biochemical characteristics at the time of the diagnosis of hypothyroidism in adult women. To do so, a descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study was carried out. Two hundred and three clinical histories of women diagnosed with hypothyroidism from the Hospital Escuela de Agudos Dr. Ramón Madariaga, Posadas (Misiones) were selected. The most prevalent clinical feature was asthenia and it was present in 41% (n = 83) of the patients. 46% presented hypertriglyceridemia, 39% hypercholesterolemia, 38% altered fasting glycaemia, 17% hypertension, 23% overweight and 52% obesity. Women with clinical hypothyroidism showed a 5 times higher risk of presenting high levels of triglycerides than women with subclinical hypothyroidism (OR = 5.2; 95% CI = 1.93-14.04). All women presented at least one clinical or biochemical characteristic, being the most frequent, within the latter, hypertriglyceridemia and altered fasting glycaemia.
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