Scientific research analysis
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Thyroid diagnosis & therapy in Native Canadian populations: Too many unanswered questions
How have thyroid diseases and our Canadian thyroid diagnosis & treatment policies affected Native American people in Canada? This is an unanswered question. I can’t find any published research about it yet. It’s just the perfect piece of “thyroid ignorance” to contemplate today in Canada. Today, Sept. 30, as we Canadians know, is a relatively…
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Four types of unstable thyroid function in the elderly
Diagnostic concepts like “subclinical hypothyroidism” have become cognitive barriers to understanding the adaptations and dysfunctions of the aging hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis. Thyroid diagnostic categories are usually based on whether TSH and FT4 are in range, above range, or below range, in relation to an age-blind reference range. These are convenient biochemical stereotypes. These stereotypes have…
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Reference list for analyzing normal thyroid lab results
This list provides all references in alphabetical order for the following series of posts: Series introduction: Cognitive barriers to analyzing “normal” thyroid lab results Barrier 1: Are normal thyroid reference ranges risk-free zones? Barrier 2: What’s wrong with calling TSH, FT3 and FT4 “thyroid function tests”? Barrier 3: Can a normal TSH rule out thyroid…
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Thyroid disease in Ukrainians’ lives
When we think of the many challenges Ukrainians are facing with courage today, we should remember that they lived through Chernobyl, and that they are a people living with thyroid diseases. Partly because of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown disaster in 1986, thyroid disease and lifelong thyroid therapy has become an important part of Ukrainians’ past…
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TBAb hypothyroidism diagnosed in a mother and baby
In this post, I’d like to share with you a real-life story, suitable for the holiday season, that might warm your hearts as much as it warmed mine. And by the end, it might even motivate you to learn more or take action. Newsflash from 2016: A newborn baby’s hypothyroidism with a TSH of 117…