Thyroid News

Patients with head and neck cancer who consumed a diet high in nutrients found to deter chronic disease had a 93% lower likelihood of death due to any cause during the first 3 years after diagnosis, according to study results.

Among children with thyroid nodules, those with autoimmune thyroiditis have a higher risk for developing thyroid cancer compared with those without autoimmune thyroiditis, according to a study published in Thyroid.

Two widely used risk stratification systems for determining whether thyroid nodules should undergo fine-needle aspiration have a specificity of less than 30%, according to study results published in Clinical Endocrinology.

Data from a Mendelian randomization analysis indicated a causal association between type 1 diabetes and hypothyroidism, leading researchers to recommend that people with type 1 diabetes undergo regular thyroid function tests.

Overtreatment of adults with low risk differentiated thyroid cancer is more common using the 2015 Dutch Thyroid Cancer guideline compared with the American Thyroid Association’s guideline, according to study findings.

The Healio and Endocrine Today editors have compiled the most read news from the Endocrine Society annual meeting in June.

Adults with a genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 infection may have an increased risk for hypothyroidism, according to findings from a Mendelian randomization published in Thyroid.

The Healio and Endocrine Today editors have compiled the most read news from the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions in June.

In an international cohort of adults undergoing thyroid cancer surgery, most cancers were discovered among those with no thyroid-referable symptoms and 34% were symptomatic, according to study data.

Future COVID-19 vaccination doses are safe for adults who previously had a COVID-19 vaccine-induced subacute thyroiditis, according to study data published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.