The Mean Platelet Volume Is Positively Correlated with Serum Thyrotropin Concentrations in a Population of Healthy Subjects and Subjects with Unsuspected Subclinical Hypothyroidism

Abstract

The MPV was positively correlated with the TSH level. SCH is an independently associated factor with the highest tertile of MPV in a general Korean population. We propose that the MPV may contribute to the prothrombotic condition that is associated with SCH and perhaps even in putative euthyroid states where the TSH level is the higher part of the normal range.