Arti Bhan, MD, FACE

Women with hypothyroidism receiving levothyroxine treatment experienced similar cognitive decline during menopause as those without thyroid disease, according to data published in Thyroid.

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Adults who undergo surgery to treat hyperparathyroidism have similar rates of fracture after surgery as healthy controls, according to data published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

Adults who develop hypoparathyroidism after a total thyroidectomy have an increased risk for all-cause mortality compared with the general population, but only if the indication for their surgery was cancer, according to study data.

Adults with mild hyperparathyroidism who underwent a parathyroidectomy did not have a difference in fracture events at 10 years compared with adults who did not undergo surgery, according to study data.

The prevalence of hypothyroidism — overt and subclinical — is higher among women during the late menopause transition and postmenopause compared with premenopause, according to study findings.

Lack of energy, forgetfulness and feeling sleepy are the most common symptoms adults with hypothyroidism face with “brain fog,” a phrase patients use to describe a type of cognitive dysfunction, according to a speaker.

Limiting molecular testing to people with thyroid nodules that are Bethesda category III or IV on repeat fine-needle aspiration, or FNA, cytology can reduce the rate of surgery of histologically benign nodules, according to study data.