Research Reviews
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Infographic: Myxedema Coma
Source Mathew, V., Misgar, R. A., Ghosh, S., Mukhopadhyay, P., Roychowdhury, P., Pandit, K., … Chowdhury, S. (2011). Myxedema Coma: A New Look into an Old Crisis. Journal of Thyroid Research, 2011. LINK: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175396/
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REVIEW: T3-T4 ratio in myocardial infarction
Assessing the RATIO between Free T3 and Free T4 within the reference range is clinically relevant, even for people without thyroid disease. Why, then, should these two tests be considered unnecessary for assessing the thyroid hormone status and the health risk of hypothyroid patients on therapy? A 2018 study has demonstrated that a LOW free…
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REVIEW: 2018 study of hormone status on L-T4 monotherapy
Another great study by McAninch and colleagues, from Antonio Bianco’s lab, has been published in a leading endocrinology journal, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The study was announced and summarized in this press release titled “Standard Hypothyroidism Treatment Falling Short.” Let’s hope the endocrinology community will listen and think twice about whether its…
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2017 study of T2 hormones, blood glucose and other metabolic markers
Do you know about the effects of the two kinds of T2 thyroid hormone that your body produces? A significant 2017 mouse study examined treatment with T3 as well as two types of T2 hormone. One type of T2 is produced by removing iodine from the outer ring of the T3 molecule. The other type…
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HISTORY: Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, the co-discoverer of T3 hormone
The co-discoverers of the T3 hormone (triiodothyronine) in 1952 were Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, MD, PhD (London) and Dr. Jack Gross, MD, PhD (McGill) from Canada. Rosalind Pitt-Rivers’ early life Dr. Jamshed Tata, one of Pitt-Rivers’ many co-authors, wrote the Biographical Memoirs of Dr. Pitt-Rivers, in 1994. This work is the main source of this profile. Tata…