Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The role of smoking in the pathogenesis of thyroid enlargement is currently under debate. The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of smoking on thyroid volume change and incident goiter for different age-strata in a region with normalized iodine supply.Methods: The population-based Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP) compromised 3300 subjects with complete 5-year examination follow-up. Data from 2484 participants without known thyroi...

Context: Monitoring of iodine fortification programs is required for early recognition of oversupply or ineffective supply with iodine. Potential effects of non-response studies that are aimed at monitoring such programs have not been analysed.Objective: With the present analyses we investigated the potential role of selection bias for studies performed to monitor the iodine supply and prevalence of thyroid disorders.Design: The pr...