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Endocrinology research, explained
6 open-access endocrinology studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Is higher blood sugar linked to getting or dying of cancer?
People with higher blood sugar were more likely to develop cancer and especially to die from it, and this held even within the upper-normal range in women.
- Which genes raise the risk of fatty liver disease?
A common variant in the PNPLA3 gene raised the odds of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (odds ratio 1.79) in both children and adults and was linked to more severe liver damage, but a score built from known risk genes only weakly predicted who had the disease.
- Can a mother's dioxin exposure decades earlier affect her baby's thyroid?
Babies born up to three decades after the Seveso dioxin accident to mothers from the most contaminated area had clearly higher thyroid-stimulating hormone at birth, rising step by step with contamination level.
- Is thyroid hormone level linked to macular degeneration?
Older adults with higher levels of free thyroid hormone, even within the normal range, were more likely to develop age-related macular degeneration over the following years.
- Does a RAS gene mutation mean a thyroid lump is cancer?
Thyroid nodules carrying a RAS mutation turned out to be cancer in fewer than half of cases, and the cancers that were found were all low-risk.
- Is a mildly overactive thyroid linked to dementia in older adults?
Older Brazilians whose blood tests showed a mildly overactive thyroid were about four times as likely to have dementia, mainly vascular dementia, as those with normal thyroid function.