Endocrine Abstracts

A lot of debate has been going on over when to treat subclinical hypothyroidism. Some studies plead to lower the consensus TSH cutoff value of 10 mUI/l in order to improve general well-being and cardiovascular risk factors with early LT4 treatment. Our study aim was to assess progression of subclinical to overt hypothyroidism and to identify factors that would benefit from early treatment. A cohort of 76 patients with subclinical hypothyroidism was studied retrospectively, ove...

Our previous studies made between 1999–2003 demonstrated that County Mures is a moderate/mild iodine-deficient geogra-phical area. In 2002 a governmental decision was given for universal iodization of alimentary salt with increased iodine-content, realized during 2004. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of in-creased iodine-supplementation at school children living in different iodine-deficient areas in County Mures, through urinary iodine excretion (UIE)....