OBJECTIVE Thyroid disorders were thought to be rare in Africans in the early 1960s. However the 1970s witnessed an upsurge in reported cases of thyroid disorders in Africans. In endocrinology clinics in Nigeria, thyroid disorders are the second most common endocrine disorders seen. This study attempts to describe the patterns of thyroid disorders, clinical features, and complications as seen in...

Novel disorders involving aberrations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid gland-thyroid hormone axis have been described in the last 5 to 10 years. The following topics are addressed: molecular mutations causing central hypothyroidism (isolated autosomal recessive TRH deficiency; autosomal recessive TRH-receptor inactivating mutations; TSH beta-subunit bio-inactivating mutations; Pit-1 mutati...

BACKGROUND/AIM Thyroid disorders are associated with a wide variety of skin disorders that respond to treatment of hormone imbalance in most cases and thus are of vital importance to dermatologists. This study aimed to evaluate skin findings associated with autoimmune and nonautoimmune thyroid disease with respect to thyroid functional status and healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS A tota...

Thyroid disorders are common in chronic kidney disease. The aim of this study was to examine the role of renal anemia on thyroid function, morphology and autoimmunity in clinically euthyroid patients on chronic hemodialysis (HD). Prospective study during 12 months period included 40 stable patients on chronic HD treatment. Patients were divided into two groups according to the serum hemoglobin ...

Aim. To investigate obstetric features of pregnant women with thyroid disorders and thyroid function tests of their newborn infants. Methods. Women with hypothyroidism and having anti-thyroglobulin (ATG) and anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO) antibodies were assigned as group I, women with hypothyroidism who did not have autoantibodies were assigned as group II, and women without thyroid proble...

diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrine disorders in children. there is a close association between diabetes and other autoimmune disease especially thyroid disorders. as many as 20 percent of insulin dependent diabetic patients may have thyroid antibodies in their serum. the prevalence is 2-20 times greater than observed in normal populations. in this study, 122 patients with diabetes m...

Background: Thyroid disorders are among the most common endocrine in world. dysfunction can disrupt a variety of metabolic and physiological processes, including menstrual cycle. The purpose this study was to discover pattern thyroid women with disorders. Methods: It is cross-sectional that includes 116 women. With reproductive age disorder. tested who had problems. Serum free triiodothyronine ...

Objectives: Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA), a global public health problem may have an inimical effect on thyroid function, especially in women and children. This study was conducted to inspect the correlation between IDA disorders of Bangladesh.
 Methods: A cross-sectional among 452 different age groups particular regions Bangladesh presenting anemic symptoms were confirmed after testing se...

Background: Thyroid hormones play an important role in cardiac tissue function. Therefore, it is to understand the relationship between thyroid hormone levels and disorders. Objectives: The present study aimed assess normal serum level of left ventricular systolic diastolic dysfunction. Methods: In this cross sectional descriptive retrospective study, 391 patients were selected. They referred R...

BACKGROUND Complex bidirectional relationships have been described between body weight, thyroid function, and risk of thyroid disorders, including thyroid autoimmunity. We used a life-course approach to examine the potential association of childhood or adult body weight with the risk of thyroid autoimmunity and other thyroid disorders at age 60-64 years in a large population-based birth cohort ...