Clinical Thyroidology for the Public summarizes selected research studies discussed in the previous month’s issue of Clinical Thyroidology, an official publication of the American Thyroid Association.
Editor-in-chief, Alan Farwell, MD
Volume 8 Issue 5
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HYPOTHYROIDISM Is it worthwhile to screen for thyroid disease?
Rugge JB et al. Screening and treatment of thyroid dysfunction: an evidence review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med 2015;162:35-45.
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THYROID AND PREGNANCY Diagnosing mild thyroid problems in early pregnancy and defining its impact on complications of pregnancy needs to be revisited
Ong GS et al. Does the thyroid-stimulating hormone measured concurrently with first trimester biochemical screening tests predict adverse pregnancy outcomes occurring after 20 weeks gestation? J Clin Endocr Metab 2014;99:E:2663-72.
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THYROID AND PREGNANCY Selenium supplementation during pregnancy
Mao J et al. Effect of low-dose selenium on thyroid autoimmunity and thyroid function in UK pregnant women with mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency. Eur J Nutr., 2014 Dec 19. [Epub ahead of print].
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THYROID CANCER Radioactive iodine therapy for women with thyroid cancer is associated with delayed time to child-bearing and with decreased fertility in older women
Wu JX et al. Reproductive outcomes and non-oncologic complications after radioactive iodine ablation for well-differentiated thyroid cancer. Thyroid 2015;251:133-8.
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THYROID CANCER Radioactive iodine treatment in patients with thyroid cancer can damage the nasal area
Jonklaas J et al. Nasal symptoms after radioiodine therapy: a rarely described side effect with similar frequency to lacrimal dysfunction. Thyroid. September 8, 2014 [Epub ahead of print].
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THYROID CANCER No clinical advantage to prophylactic central-neck dissection for papillary thyroid cancer
Viola D et al Prophylactic central compartment lymph node dissection in papillary thyroid carcinoma: clinical implications derived from the first prospective randomized controlled single institution study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. January 15, 2015 [Epub ahead of print].
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