Tissue hypothyroidism
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Cute puppies get thyroid petition signatures
During our 2018 Canadian Thyroid Patients’ petition, we were frustrated by the low rate of e-signatures as the petition entered its final month of December. We looked with envy at the statistics of other House of Commons petitions and discovered that some of the more successful ones were about preventing cruelty to animals. In fact,…
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Thyroid hormone economics 101: Less FT3 per unit of TSH
Despite a normal TSH, some thyroid patients will fall far below their healthy set point for Free T3, the active thyroid hormone. TSH behaves differently in thyroid patients. TSH cannot indicate T3 sufficiency in thyroid therapy. Source of graph: Hoermann, R., Midgley, J. E. M., Larisch, R., & Dietrich, J. W. (2016). Relational Stability in…
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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: In illness, T3 testing is more reliable than TSH
In Chatizomaris et al’s (2017) article, Table 2 illustrates the many health conditions — beyond thyroid gland failure — in which a TSH test result is NOT indicative of the patient’s true thyroid hormone status. The table shows what usually happens to thyroid hormones and TSH in a patient who is NOT taking any thyroid…
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Low T3 effects on the cardiovascular system
When people think of cardiovascular symptoms and thyroid hormones, they usually think first about hyperthyroidism (excess thyroid hormone). However, hypothyroidism (deficient thyroid hormone) has an equally powerful effect on the heart and blood vessels. It can just be slower, more long-term, and less dramatic. Did you know? Heart failure occurs in hypothyroidism, too. (See below)…