Hypothyroidism Affects The Brain

Hypothyroidism Affects The Brain.
Hypothyroidism, a form that causes low or no thyroid hormone production, is not linked to submissive dementia or impaired brain function, a new investigation suggests. Although more research is needed, the scientists said their findings add to mounting ground that the thyroid gland disorder is not tied to the memory and thinking problems known as "mild cognitive impairment". Some ex evidence has suggested that changes in the body's endocrine system, including thyroid function, might be linked to Alzheimer's blight and other forms of dementia, said researchers led by Dr Ajay Parsaik, of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.

Mild cognitive impairment, in particular, is cogitation to be an cock's-crow warning sign of the memory-robbing disorder Alzheimer's disease, the scrutinize authors said in a university news release. In conducting the study, Parsaik's group examined a group of more than 1900 people, including those with mild and more severe cases of hypothyroidism. The participants, who were from the same Minnesota county, were between 70 and 89 years of age.

The swat showed that memory and viewpoint problems occurred at about the same rate regardless of thyroid function. Impairments in brain function occurred in 16 percent of participants with routine thyroid function, 17 percent of patients with more unembellished hypothyroidism and 18 percent of people with mild hypothyroidism. No association between hypothyroidism and tractable brain impairment was found, the researchers said, even after they took into account the participants' age, gender, body-mass guide (a measurement of body fat based on height and weight) and other health problems.

One pro said the final word on this issue might still be yet to come, however. Dr Spyros Mezitis, an endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said the studio had a "robust" design. But because the results be incompatible with those of prior studies, they "need to be validated in research in break apart settings" and with a trial that follows patients over time. "The practicing physician should continue testing thyroid operate in the setting of memory and thinking decline and treating clinical hypothyroidism" continue reading. The burn the midnight oil was published online Dec 30, 2013 in the journal JAMA Neurology.