Effect of hyperthyroidism and its treatment on bone mineral content
Creators
- 1. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Providence, RI
Description
Patients with hyperthyroidism may develop osteopenia associated with fractures; however, there has been no general agreement on the incidence of osteopenia in hyperthyroidism or the recovery of the mineral loss after treatment of hyperthyroidism. The authors conducted a longitudinal prospective study on the effect of hyperthyroidism and its treatment on bone mineral content (BMC) using photon absorptiometry. They observed that both young and older hyperthyroid patients showed a significantly decreased baseline BMC compared with age- and sex-matched controls. They also observed a slight recovery of BMC in hyperthyroid patients at the two-year interval after a euthyroid state had been achieved. However, the BMC was still much lower than that of controls, and they did not find any significant restoration of BMC following ''cure'' of hyperthyroidism
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Arch. Intern. Med.
- Journal Issue
- no.5
- Series
- Arch. Intern. Med.
- ISSN
- 0003-9926
- CODEN
- AIMDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 17016534
- Subject category
- S60: APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES;
- Descriptors DEI
- ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BONE FRACTURES; CALCIUM; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IODINE ISOTOPES; MINERALS; PATHOGENESIS; SKELETAL DISEASES; SKELETON; THYROXINE
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALINE EARTH METALS; AMINO ACIDS; BODY; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DISEASES; ELEMENTS; ENDOCRINE DISEASES; HORMONES; INJURIES; METALS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC IODINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; PEPTIDE HORMONES; SPECTROSCOPY; THYROID HORMONES