Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Anti-thyroidal drug (ATD) therapy is a treatment of choice for Graves’ disease because of its effectiveness and low rate of adverse effect. Response to ATD or remission rate varies among individuals, although there were few useful clues for prediction of treatment response. We applied neural network model to predict response to methimazole, based on clinical symptoms at initial clinical symptoms.Methods & Design: We reviewed 20 new...

Background: TSH suppression therapy has been associated with hip and vertebral fracture. However, the relationship between TSH suppression and bone mineral density (BMD) remains controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of TSH suppression therapy on cortical bone geometry in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients.Methods: This study included 122 subjects (19 men, 27 premenopausal women, and 75 postmenopausal women) who have be...