Achalasia and thyroid disease

Table 3 Overall and specific ethnicity and gender of all patients and those suffering from thyroid disease respectively

	Hypothyroid patients		Benign thyroid diseases1		Without thyroid problems		Total
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Number	4	13.3	7	23.7	23	76.6	30	100
Gender	♂1 ♀3	♂25 ♀75	♂2 ♀5	♂28 ♀72	♂8 ♀15	♂34 ♀66	♂10 ♀20	♂33 ♀67
Ethnicity2	F: 3	F: 75	F: 5	F: 71	F: 16	F: 69	F: 21	F: 70
	B: 1	B: 25	B: 2	B: 28	B: 5	B: 21	B: 7	B: 23

¹Composed of thyroid nodules, hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.

²Composed of the most common ethnicity in patients, F: Fars; B: Bakhtiari.