Hyperthyroidism

Children born to mothers diagnosed with thyroid disorders before or during pregnancy were significantly more likely to develop thyroid cancer, with risk persisting into adulthood, according to an analysis of registry data.

Women with hyperthyroidism had improvements in bone mineral density and bone microarchitecture 1 year after attaining euthyroid status, according to findings published in Thyroid.

Recently, my fellow and I saw a new patient who was referred for consultation about abnormal thyroid labs. I was a bit frustrated but also intrigued that this patient — aged at least 60 years and a retired administrator — had not heard about lab “glitches” associated with biotin use.

This is another post in the series “My Patients, My Heroes” that I dedicate to my patients.

Increased genetic risk for Graves’ disease, autoimmune thyroiditis or hyperthyroidism is not associated with low bone mineral density or fracture risk, according to an analysis of UK Biobank data.

Two of five people with Graves’ disease worldwide have thyroid eye disease, with higher rates among Asian populations vs. other ethnicities, according to a meta-analysis published in Clinical Endocrinology.

Pregnant women with hyperthyroidism or a history of hyperthyroid disease are at increased risk for gestational hypertension, preterm birth, an infant born small for gestational age and neonatal ICU admission, study data show.

Physiologic variations in thyroid-stimulating hormone concentrations may lead to a misclassification of subclinical thyroid disease for some healthy pregnant women, possibly subjecting women to unnecessary treatment, researchers report.

Hypothyroidism was more than 2.5 times more prevalent among Korean adults who worked between 53 and 83 hours per week than those who worked between 36 and 42 hours per week.

A cohort of postmenopausal Japanese women were more likely to sustain a vertebral fracture if they had thyroid-stimulating antibodies compared with women without the antibody, independent of age and severe osteoporosis status, according to findings published in Clinical Endocrinology.