background predictor thyroid dysfunct hiv well determin this studi aim determin preval predictor thyroid dysfunct hiv infect indian method consecut hiv patient 1870 year age without ani sever comorbid state have least 1year followup antiretrovir therapi clinic underw clinic assess hormon assay result from initi screen 527 patient 359 patient month diseas durat have good immun function cd4 count 200 cell 3 9025 high activ antiretrovir therapi haart 8858 were analyz subclin hypothyroid sch commonest thyroid dysfunct 1476 follow sick euthyroid syndrom ses 529 isol low tsh 31 antitpo antibodi tpoab posit 390 baselin cd4 count had invers correl tpoab after adjust age bodi mass index stepwis linear regress reveal baselin cd4 count tpoab tuberculosi best predictor sch after adjust age weight durat hiv histori opportunist fungal viral infect conclus burden thyroid dysfunct chronic hiv infect stabl immun function lower compar prehaart era thyroid dysfunct primarili nonautoimmun origin predomin sch sever immunodefici diseas onset tpoab posit tuberculosi were best predictor sch

Neera Sharma

Lokesh Kumar Sharma

Deep Dutta

Adesh Kisanji Gadpayle

Atul Anand

Kumar Gaurav

Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Rahul Bansal

Prevalence and Predictors of Thyroid Dysfunction in Patients with HIV Infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: An Indian Perspective

introduct plasma antithyroid peroxidas antitpo antithyroglobulin antibodi antitg wide use diagnosi autoimmun thyroid research has compar antitpo antitg both plasma cerebrospin fluid csf healthi individu visàvi patient thyroid diseas method measur antitpo antitg antibodi plasma csf nine subject mean age 73 6 year hypothyroid nine subject mean age 73 8 year without thyroid diseas result the concentr antitpo autoantibodi csf veri low compar plasma both subject thyroid without thyroid diseas csf antitg autoantibodi titer were veri low compar plasma subject thyroid diseas wherea subject without thyroid diseas differ did reach statist signific conclus thyroid autoantibodi level were low plasma csf did observ ani transfer thyroid autoantibodi from peripher blood csf therefor regard hashimoto encephalopathi where elev antithyroid autoantibodi often measur blood more like thyroid encephalopathi repres nonspecif distinct event aggress immun system

Ioannis Ilias

Vasiliki Karagiorga

George Paraskevas

Anastasia Bougea

Mara Bourbouli

Athina Pappa

Stamatina Nikopoulou

Elisabeth Kapaki

Thyroid Autoantibodies in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Subjects with and without Thyroid Disease: Implications for Hashimoto&#x2019;s Encephalopathy

problem clinic featur grave hyperthyroid general improv dure pregnanc rebound postpartum period unclear whether ophthalmopathi associ less often hashimoto thyroid chang parallel thyroid associ antibodi reaction clinic featur run differ cours method studi retrospect studi 19 patient autoimmun thyroid diseas over 22 pregnanc 9 pregnanc 13 ophthalmopathi defin nospecs class result thyroid peroxidas tpo thyroglobulin antibodi titr decreas dure pregnanc rose postpartum period dure pregnanc 5 patient 4 patient develop mild ophthalmopathi two patient develop new upper eyelid retract uer postpartum period eye score improv 3 patient 3 remain stabl two 5 patient respect worsen 2 patient one conclus patient mild moder eye sign associ orbit thyroid reaction ran differ cours dure pregnanc sinc patient had sever ophthalmopathi cannot draw definit conclus from preliminari studi

Jack R. Wall

Hooshang Lahooti

Emily J. Hibbert

Bernard Champion

Relationship between Clinical and Immunological Features of Thyroid Autoimmunity and Ophthalmopathy during Pregnancy

background the aim studi were assess patient prefer wait start system treatment understand how patient would make tradeoff between certain sever advers event aes addit month progressionfre surviv pfs materi method adult franc germani spain diagnosi dtc who have had least one rai treatment complet directelicit question discretechoic experi dce onlin the directelicit question ask respond whether would opt out treatment when tumor rair dce respond chose between 12 pair hypothet rair dtc treatment profil profil were defin magnitud efficaci pfs safeti sever handfoot skin reaction hfsr sever proteinuria sever hypertens maineffect randomparamet logit model estim result 134 patient complet survey most patient 866 opt treatment rather than wait see decis patient place greater weight risk sever hypertens than risk proteinuria hfsr conclus dtc patient show prefer toward treatment rair dtc over watch wait patient concern about risk sever hypertens appear have had greater effect patient choic than sever proteinuria hfsr

Ateesha F. Mohamed

Juan Marcos González

Angelyn Fairchild

Patient Benefit-Risk Tradeoffs for Radioactive Iodine-Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Treatments

objectiv assess cardiovascular risk factor nepales popul subclin hypothyroid compar age sex match control materi method case control studi conduct among 200 subject 100 subclin hypothyroid 100 euthyroid koirala institut health scienc dharan nepal demograph anthropometr variabl includ systol diastol blood pressur were taken blood sampl were assay serum free triiodothyronin ft3 free thyroxin ft4 thyroid stimul hormon tsh total cholesterol high densiti lipoprotein cholesterol hdlc low densiti lipoprotein cholesterol ldlc high sensit reactiv protein hscrp result subclin hypothyroid patient had signific higher diastol total cholesterol ldl cholesterol hscrp than control the odd ratio have hypercholesterolemia 200 low hdl cholesterol 40 undesir ldlcholesterol 100 high hscrp 1 high diastol 80 mmhg be overweight bmi 23 2 subclin hypothyroid 229 95 12438 173 95 082362 304 95 166556 202 95 112364 335 95 172655 09 95 048167 respect compar control conclus subclin hypothyroid patient associ higher risk cardiovascular diseas than euthyroid subject

Rajendra KC

Saroj Khatiwada

Kishun Deo Mehta

Pratikshya Pandey

Madhab Lamsal

Shankhar Majhi

Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Subclinical Hypothyroidism: A Case Control Study in Nepalese Population

Shailendra Kapoor

Tumor Growth Mitigating Effects of Valproic Acid in Systemic Malignancies

the aim studi were evalu util shear wave elastographi swe use acoust radiat forc impuls arfi diagnos chronic autoimmun thyroid cat verifi effect fibrot thyroid tissu shear wave veloc swv the subject were 229 patient 253 normal thyroid lobe control 150 cat lobe the swv cat 247 057 signific higher than control 159 041 the area under receiv oper characterist roc curv cat 0899 swv cutoff valu 196 the sensit specif diagnost accuraci were 874 787 851 respect level antithyroperoxidas antibodi thyroid isthmus thick were correl tissu stiff cat howev correl between level antithyroglobulin antibodi tissu stiff quantit swe use diagnos cat possibl swe can use evalu degre fibrosi patient cat

Takahiro Fukuhara

Eriko Matsuda

Shoichiro Izawa

Kazunori Fujiwara

Hiroya Kitano

Utility of Shear Wave Elastography for Diagnosing Chronic Autoimmune Thyroiditis

background studi bone effect longterm substitut therapi levothyroxin 4 have shown discrep result previous studi have howev evalu volumetr bone miner densiti vbmd bone structur strength use high resolut peripher quantit comput tomographi hrpqct finit element analysi fea using crosssect design aim determin whether bmd structur strength affect hypothyroid patient 4 substitut therapi method compar 49 patient wellsubstitut hypothyroid 49 age gendermatch popul base control areal bmd assess dxa vbmd bone geometri hrpqct bone strength fea result patient had been thyroidectom due thyroid cancer 10 nontox 33 toxic goiter 57 82 were women tsh level did differ between group patient had signific higher level lower level compar control patient had higher level magnesium wherea ioniz calcium pth were lower bone scan did reveal ani differ bmd bone geometri strength conclus patient hypothyroid wellsubstitut 4 diseas doe affect bone indic ani major degre

Emil Moser

Tanja Sikjaer

Leif Mosekilde

Lars Rejnmark

Bone Indices in Thyroidectomized Patients on Long-Term Substitution Therapy with Levothyroxine Assessed by DXA and HR-pQCT

aim the aim studi studi relat vitiligo demograph data like age sex durat determin preval thyroid autoimmun vitiligo patient materi method this studi cross section studi consist 100 patient clinic diagnos old new have vitiligo irrespect age sex patient known thyroid diseas supplement therapi who had undergon thyroid surgeri those antithyroid medic patient other caus leukoderma case who provid inform consent were exclud from studi serum tsh antitpo antibodi were measur all patient result the preval antitpo antibodi posit found 28 conclus accord our studi none our vitiligo patient had symptom sign thyroid diseas time present biochem evalu antitpo antibodi were found consider number patient henc recommend screen patient thyroid antibodi

R. Dash

A. Mohapatra

B. S. Manjunathswamy

Anti-Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody in Vitiligo: A Prevalence Study

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Journal of Thyroid Research publishes articles on the molecular and cellular biology, immunology, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of thyroid diseases, with a specific focus on thyroid cancer.

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