Thyroid News

Isolated hypothyroxinemia during the first trimester of pregnancy is associated with an increased risk for breech presentation, infant macrosomia and cesarean sections, study data show.

Despite routine recommendation of prenatal multivitamins before conception, pregnancy and lactation, many obstetricians and midwives fail to recommend iodine supplementation or to recommend an adequate amount.

On my way to the office following a second-year medical students’ problem-based learning (PBL) class at the MSU Radiology Building, I was stopped by a spectacular scene; one of those typical situations, where one is compelled to pull out his or her cell phone to take some pictures.

In adults with Graves’ disease treated with antithyroid drugs, a second course may be effective treatment after a first relapse, study data show.

Health-related quality of life for physical functioning, mental fatigue and thyroid cancer-specific complaints is lower among adult survivors of pediatric differentiated thyroid cancer survivors compared with healthy controls.

Hypercalciuria in adults with primary hyperparathyroidism may be safely controlled with thiazide diuretics, according to findings published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In men with hypopituitarism, treatment with growth hormone therapy is associated with changes in circulating thyroid hormone levels and deiodinase enzyme activity, although the mechanism behind the changes remains unclear, study findings show.

Adults without overt thyroid disease have an increased risk for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality when they have high free thyroxine and low triiodothyronine concentrations, study data show.

Adults with medullary or differentiated thyroid cancer with extrathyroidal extension have lower 5-year survival rates than those whose tumors have not spread to surrounding structures, study data show.

Thyroid dysfunction is not associated with recent marijuana use in adults, but recent marijuana users had lower levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone compared with nonusers and past users, recent findings show.