Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic inflammatory disease with unknown etiology. There has been considerable debate about the relation between thyroid gland and rheumatic diseases.
 Objective: To assessed prevalence of primary hypothyroidism in patients rheumatoid arthritis, as well association severity arthritis.
 Patients Methods: This study cross-sectional observational i...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of hypothyroidism after chemoradiation in head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC). METHODS One hundred twenty-two patients treated with 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT; 70 Gy/35#) or intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT; 66 Gy/30#) in 2 identical simultaneous randomized trials were studied. Thyroid funct...

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of posttreatment hypothyroidism in patients treated with surgery with or without radiotherapy for advanced-stage nonthyroid head and neck cancer and to make recommendations for its detection. DESIGN A prospective study to assess the incidence and time frame of occurrence of hypothyroidism in patients by primary tumor site and treatment modality. Thyroid f...

Background and objectives: Subclinical hypothyroidism is an asymptomatic condition with normal thyroxin and raised thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism in primary health care (PHC) settings in Riyadh and explore the relationship of TSH level with age, gender, family history, body mass index, and co-morb...

Cord blood thyrotropin (TSH) screening for congenital primary hypothyroidism has been in effect on the island of St. Lucia for the past three years. Umbilical cord blood samples are obtained on Guthrie filter paper and then transported 3,000 miles to Loyola University of Chicago and delivered to the Illinois State Metabolic Screening Laboratory. There TSH is measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA). ...

AMONG the many signs of hypothyroidism, puffiness of the eye-lids is a familiar feature of the facial appearance, but watering of the eyes is not usually reported as a prominent symptom. Recently we have seen five patients who presented to an oculist complaining of watering of the eyes in whom there was found evidence of hypothyroidism and whose symptoms were relieved by the administration of t...