Endocrine Abstracts

The success of any health endure relies on commitment towards the outcome. Pakistan having already affected by the myth with iodized salt; posing a challenge for the legislative system to legislate and regulate the iodine supplementation. Iodine deficiency control bill 2009 is still pending for approval from national assembly since then. With this background we aimed to assess the challenges faced for legislation and implementation of the programme. After 18th amend...

Background: Psychological distress is elevated in patient with chronic diseases during pandemics such as the COVID-19 outbreak. Data of the impact of common endocrinopathies including thyroid abnormalities on psychological status of patients during pandemics are lacking so far.Objectives: To compare psychological distress about COVID-19 pandemic, between patients with thyroid diseases and patients with non-endocrine diseases (controls) in the outpatient ...

Indroduction: Central hypothyroidism is a rare cause of hypothyroidism, consequence of various disorders affecting pituitary (secondary) or hypothalamus (tertiary hypothyroidism). Difficulties in the diagnosis and management of patients are due to the nontypical clinical picture, frequent combination with impaired function of other pituitary hormones, difficulties in laboratory assessment in high TSH levels or low - normal T4 free levels. Diagnosis is based on a confirmed decr...

Objective: Previous studies have suggested that increased thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAb) levels are a low-grade inflammatory marker. However, limited research has investigated its association with high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP). We aimed to explore the association between TPOAb levels and elevated hs-CRP levels in men and women, using data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil).Methods: We included particip...

Background: Нypothyroidism (HT) is characterized by decreased overall energy expenditure and the basal metabolic rate. The reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence in the tissue was shown to provide important information on the metabolic state of the mitochondria in terms of energy production. We hypothesize that the intensity of skin NADH fluorescence is associated with impaired energy metabolism in HT. The aim of this study was to evaluate th...

Objective: Because thyroid hormones positively regulate basal metabolic rate (BMR), one would expect that researchers systematically evaluate thyroid function in studies focused on BMR or resting energy expenditure (REE). The persent study aimed to document the percentage of human metabolic studies that find a difference in BMR/REE following an intervention and subsequently go on to evaluate whether thyroid function is altered.Methods: A literature searc...

Objective: Croatia is iodine sufficient country due to universal salt iodization as documented by epidemiological studies with urinary iodine measurement in schoolchildren and pregnant women, as well as women of reproductive age. However, high salt intake is present and program for reduction of salt intake in Croatia is initiated. The epidemiological project funded by Croatian science foundation EHUH2 was carried out to investigate prevalence of hypertension and related risk f...

Objectives: Hearing impairment is mainly described in congenital hypothyroidism and iodine deficiency in children. Hearing impairment has a major impact on behavior, educational attainment, social status and quality of life. In connection with thyroid disease, little attention is paid to hearing impairment. The incidence of hearing impairment in congenital hypothyroidism reaches 35-50%. The pathogenesis, incidence and severity of hearing impairment is even less known in acquir...

Introduction: Recent literature highlights the intricate link between thyroid function and atherosclerosis, particularly emphasizing its influence on carotid internal media thickness (cIMT). However, the studies yielded contradictory results, with some of them showing that subclinical hyper or hypothyroidism, may influence atherogenesis and increased cardiovascular risk, while others not showing such effect.Objective: We aimed to investigate the associat...

Objectives: Distinguishing between a healthy thyroid and autoimmune thyroid disease can sometimes be challenging. In addition to clinical and laboratory tools, as well as thyroid ultrasound, additional diagnostic tool is the elastographic assessment of thyroid tissue. With our research, we aimed to determine if we could differentiate between thyroid tissue in patients with Graves’ disease (GD) and subjects with a healthy thyroid using ultrasound shear wave elastography (S...