“…After full text review of 219 articles, 18 papers with a sample size of 42,793 subjects were found to be eligible for systematic review according to inclusion and exclusion criteria [4,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] (Fig. 1); based on the results of systematic review, six studies were related to the prevalence of hyperthyroidism in general population without age restriction (category 1) [4,16,18,19,27,28], four studies assessed the prevalence of hyperthyroidism in <20 years old population (category 2) [17,20,21,30], five studies reported the prevalence of hyperthyroidism in subjects with goiter (category 3) [4,17,23,28,29], three studies reported the incidence rate of hyperthyroidism (category 4) [16,22,31], and seven studies reported the diagnostic, medical treatment, or drug-prescription rate of overt hyperthyroidism (category 5) [4,15,16,18,[24][25][26]<...>…”