Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Little is known about the long-term outcome of the thyroid function in Graves’ disease in a large epidemiological setting.Objective: The aim was to evaluate the long-term outcome of the thyroid function in patients diagnosed with Graves’ disease in Denmark in the period 1995-2018. Our research objectives were to investigate the incidence of disease, use of antithyroid drugs, radioactive iodine, thyroidectomy and levothyroxine during...

Objective: Globally, cancer is one of the leading causes of death. Therefore, identification of risk factors is of paramount interest. Whether thyroid dysfunction is a cancer risk factor is currently being debated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk of cancer in patients diagnosed with hypothyroidism.Methods: This is a register-based nationwide cohort study of individuals diagnosed with hypothyroidism referred to Danish hospitals (followed fr...