Thyroid News

Thyroid autoimmunity or status was not affected by vitamin D3 supplementation compared with placebo after 16 weeks in apparently healthy adults, according to findings published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.

The risk for metabolic syndrome may be higher among adults who are short-term thyroid cancer survivors compared with longer-term survivors and adults without a history of thyroid cancer, study data from Korea show.

Adults with differentiated thyroid cancer who undergo a total thyroidectomy may experience delayed thyroid-stimulating hormone recovery during levothyroxine dose reduction, according to study findings published in Clinical Endocrinology.

Serum 1,25-dihydroxyvtamin D3 and osteocalcin are significantly correlated with the calcium/creatinine clearance ratio in adults with primary hyperparathyroidism revealing that the diagnostic value of calcium/creatinine clearance ratio may be affected with vitamin D3 replacement therapy, according to researchers in Switzerland.

Thyroid-stimulating hormone concentrations are associated with several cardiovascular risk parameters in children with overweight or obesity and normal thyroid function, study data show.

Levothyroxine treatment did not significantly improve hypothyroid symptoms score or tiredness score in older adults with subclinical hypothyroidism, according to findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Clinical journals have reported recently on the possible overdiagnosis and overtreatment of low-risk thyroid cancers, particularly papillary thyroid carcinoma. During a session convened at the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, experts presented perspectives on the possible effects of assigning at least some of these cases a noncancer designation.

Autoimmune thyroid diseases and thyroid cancer were significantly associated with vitiligo, according to research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

ORLANDO, Fla. — In this video exclusive, Megan R. Haymart, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, discusses sessions targeted to members of the Endocrine Society as well as the American Association of Endocrine Surgeries, which was held concurrently with the ENDO meeting.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Adults with obesity and high levels of free triiodothyronine may lose more weight following bariatric surgery than adults with lower levels of free triiodothyronine, according to research presented here.