Few studies have investigated the association between iodine status, thyroid disease, and cancer risk despite evidence that thyroid function impacts many organs, including the prostate. We investigated iodine status and prostate cancer risk prospectively using data from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Participants were stratified into tertiles according to the urinary iodine/creatin...

Thyroid ophthalmopathy, or Graves’ ophthalmopathy, is the most common cause of exophthalmos in adults. Graves first described thyroid disease with associated ophthalmopathy in 1835. To date, the pathogenesis of thyroid ophthalmopathy remains speculative, as reflected by the numerous names by which it is described such as dysthyroid ophthalmopathy or thyroid eye disease, thyroid orbitopathy, eut...

BACKGROUND Graves' disease is an autoimmune thyroid disorder characterized by hyperthyroidism, and patients exhibit thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibody. The major methods of measuring circulating thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibody include the thyroid-stimulating hormone-binding inhibitory immunoglobulin assays. Although the diagnostic accuracy of these assays has been impro...

Hospital Physician October 2006 43 T he clinical spectrum of thyroid disease varies from asymptomatic subclinical disease detected by laboratory screening to overt thyroid storm and myxedema coma. However, laboratory detection of subclinical or early thyroid disease usually occurs before these overt manifestations of disease develop. The clinician must maintain a high degree of suspicion for th...

We investigated the association between autoimmune thyroid disease and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using nationwide insurance claims data for the entire Korean population. Claims data for the period 2009-2013 were retrieved from the National Health Insurance System database. SLE and thyroid disease were identified using the International Classification of Diseases codes and medication in...

Assessments were made of 945 consecutive hospital patients with regard to a relation between borderline low thyroid function (recognised by a slightly raised thyroid stimulating hormone), thyroid autoimmunity, serum cholesterol, and coronary heart disease. Men and women with a thyroid autoimmunity, serum cholesterol, and coronary heart disease. Men and women with a thyroid stimulating hormone o...

BACKGROUND Limited data are available on the association between vitiligo and autoimmune thyroid disease in pediatric patients. In addition, reported studies of pediatric patients have been based on a population known to have vitiligo and subsequently evaluated for the presence of thyroid function abnormalities. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on 333 children who had been f...