Thyroid News

Inorganic iodine therapy administered to mothers with Graves’ disease did not affect thyroid function in most infants, despite high levels of iodine exposure measured via breast milk, according to a study conducted in Japan.

Thyroid function is linked with age-related changes in pituitary and thyroid physiology in older adults, according to data recently published in Thyroid.

Children whose mothers are positive for thyroid peroxidase antibodies are more likely to have metabolic syndrome, greater waist circumference and higher BMI than children whose mothers were antibody negative, study data show.

In comparison to individuals with high-normal thyroid function, those with low-normal thyroid function lived up to 3.5 years longer overall and up to 3.1 years longer without CVD, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The patient was referred because of an abnormal posttherapy scan after radioactive iodine ablation for thyroid cancer. The patient initially presented with a large multinodular goiter.

Salvage therapy with cabozantinib appeared active in patients with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer who experienced disease progression on prior VEGFR-targeted therapies, according to results of a phase 2 trial.

Idiopathic low ovarian reserve was linked with thyroid peroxidase antibody positivity among Chinese women, according to researchers in Taiwan.

High or low levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone may increase total morality risk in adults, and low TSH may specifically increase the risks for incident cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease and stroke, study data show.

Adults with subclinical hyperthyroidism and suppressed thyroid-stimulating hormone had an increased risk for dementia and a larger decline in cognitive score compared with euthyroid adults, while those with subclinical hyperthyroidism with mildly decreased thyroid-stimulating hormone or subclinical hypothyroidism had not, study data show.

Children in China diagnosed with primary hyperparathyroidism are often symptomatic and may be at higher risk for rickets or osteomalacia compared with adults, according to findings published in Clinical Endocrinology.