Thyroid

Two widely used risk stratification systems for determining whether thyroid nodules should undergo fine-needle aspiration have a specificity of less than 30%, according to study results published in Clinical Endocrinology.

Data from a Mendelian randomization analysis indicated a causal association between type 1 diabetes and hypothyroidism, leading researchers to recommend that people with type 1 diabetes undergo regular thyroid function tests.

Overtreatment of adults with low risk differentiated thyroid cancer is more common using the 2015 Dutch Thyroid Cancer guideline compared with the American Thyroid Association’s guideline, according to study findings.

The Healio and Endocrine Today editors have compiled the most read news from the Endocrine Society annual meeting in June.

Adults with a genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 infection may have an increased risk for hypothyroidism, according to findings from a Mendelian randomization published in Thyroid.

In an international cohort of adults undergoing thyroid cancer surgery, most cancers were discovered among those with no thyroid-referable symptoms and 34% were symptomatic, according to study data.

Future COVID-19 vaccination doses are safe for adults who previously had a COVID-19 vaccine-induced subacute thyroiditis, according to study data published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

For pregnant women with well-controlled Graves’ hyperthyroidism, subnormal thyroid-stimulating hormone levels and thyrotropin-receptor antibody positivity at drug withdrawal were linked to a rebound of Graves’ hyperthyroidism.

On a recent workday, I wore this tie to work. It is one of Dr. Daniel Duick's numerous ties.

Most patients with differentiated thyroid cancer on levothyroxine suppression therapy do not have a thyroid-stimulating hormone level within the target range, according to study data published in Clinical Endocrinology.