Thyroid News

Women with hyperthyroidism have an increased risk for death from breast cancer, and women with hypothyroidism have an increased risk for death from diabetes and cardiovascular disease compared with women without thyroid disease, according to findings from a large, prospective 30-year follow-up study.

Young girls’ thyroid function may be suppressed after early childhood exposure to specific phthalates, whereas effects of exposure are not as pronounced in boys, study data show.

The risk for metabolic syndrome may rise with decreasing serum free thyroxine levels, particularly in adults without obesity, according to findings published in Thyroid.

The use of preoperative thyroid scintigraphy in children, adolescents and young adults with thyroid carcinoma had decreased during a 19-year period in the Canadian province of Ontario, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Just 3% of patients with papillary thyroid cancer experienced clinically evident recurrence, and the majority of recurrences were successfully salvaged by adjuvant therapy and surgery, according to findings recently published in Clinical Endocrinology.

The risk for a miscarriage before 20 weeks of pregnancy is increased in women with subclinical hypothyroidism compared with women with euthyroidism, study data show.

Androgen deprivation therapy is associated with an increase in thyroid-stimulating hormone and free thyroxine and a reduction in free triiodothyronine in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer, study data show.

In honor of World Thyroid Day today, Endocrine Today compiled a list of the top five thyroid news stories and videos posted over the past 2 months.

Adults with hyperthyroidism may be at increased risk for death and cardiovascular disease compared with those without hyperthyroidism, according to findings published in Thyroid.

The risk for cardiovascular disease mortality is raised with increasing free thyroxine levels and lower thyroid-stimulating hormone levels, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.