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“Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study”

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D is a hormone that is mainly produced in the skin upon ultraviolet B radiation exposure and has important influence on various organs. In recent years, data have been collected that vitamin D deficiency plays an important role in the development of various nonskeletal diseases,...

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Autores principales: Turashvili, Nino, Javashvili, Lali, Giorgadze, Elene
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8387174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34457000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/4465563
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Javashvili, Lali
Giorgadze, Elene
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description BACKGROUND: Vitamin D is a hormone that is mainly produced in the skin upon ultraviolet B radiation exposure and has important influence on various organs. In recent years, data have been collected that vitamin D deficiency plays an important role in the development of various nonskeletal diseases, including autoimmune diseases. Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's thyroiditis) is one of the most common organ-specific autoimmune endocrine diseases. It is characterized by increased level of antithyroid peroxidase and/or antithyroglobulin antibodies in blood, which often leads to thyroid dysfunction and structural changes of the gland. There is an opinion that vitamin D deficiency may be considered as an important risk factor for development of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis, but data of various small studies are controversial. Despite the fact that Georgia is a sunny country, vitamin D deficiency is a widespread problem here. Thyroid diseases, including the chronic autoimmune thyroiditis, are also very common in Georgia. The aim of our research was to compare the level of vitamin D between the patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and the healthy subjects. METHODS: This retrospective study enrolled subjects, who were 18–70 years old and visited the clinics “Cortex” and “National Institute of Endocrinology” in 2018 or in 2019 from mid-spring to mid-summer. Data of thyroid-stimulating hormone, free thyroxine, antithyroid peroxidase antibodies, antithyroglobulin antibodies, thyroid ultrasonography, and 25(OH) vitamin D were retrospectively analysed based on medical history. In total, data of 1295 patients were collected. The statistical processing of data was performed through the SPSS 20 program. RESULTS: The negative association between thyroid-stimulating hormone, antithyroid peroxidase antibodies, antithyroglobulin antibodies, heterogeneous parenchyma of thyroid gland, and vitamin D was found in women. Statistically significant association was not detected in men. CONCLUSIONS: Serum vitamin D is lower in women with autoimmune thyroiditis and primary hypothyroidism. Further studies are needed to evaluate the influence of vitamin D supplementation on thyroid autoantibody positivity or primary hypothyroidism.
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spelling pubmed-83871742021-08-26 “Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study” Turashvili, Nino Javashvili, Lali Giorgadze, Elene Int J Endocrinol Research Article BACKGROUND: Vitamin D is a hormone that is mainly produced in the skin upon ultraviolet B radiation exposure and has important influence on various organs. In recent years, data have been collected that vitamin D deficiency plays an important role in the development of various nonskeletal diseases, including autoimmune diseases. Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's thyroiditis) is one of the most common organ-specific autoimmune endocrine diseases. It is characterized by increased level of antithyroid peroxidase and/or antithyroglobulin antibodies in blood, which often leads to thyroid dysfunction and structural changes of the gland. There is an opinion that vitamin D deficiency may be considered as an important risk factor for development of chronic autoimmune thyroiditis, but data of various small studies are controversial. Despite the fact that Georgia is a sunny country, vitamin D deficiency is a widespread problem here. Thyroid diseases, including the chronic autoimmune thyroiditis, are also very common in Georgia. The aim of our research was to compare the level of vitamin D between the patients with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and the healthy subjects. METHODS: This retrospective study enrolled subjects, who were 18–70 years old and visited the clinics “Cortex” and “National Institute of Endocrinology” in 2018 or in 2019 from mid-spring to mid-summer. Data of thyroid-stimulating hormone, free thyroxine, antithyroid peroxidase antibodies, antithyroglobulin antibodies, thyroid ultrasonography, and 25(OH) vitamin D were retrospectively analysed based on medical history. In total, data of 1295 patients were collected. The statistical processing of data was performed through the SPSS 20 program. RESULTS: The negative association between thyroid-stimulating hormone, antithyroid peroxidase antibodies, antithyroglobulin antibodies, heterogeneous parenchyma of thyroid gland, and vitamin D was found in women. Statistically significant association was not detected in men. CONCLUSIONS: Serum vitamin D is lower in women with autoimmune thyroiditis and primary hypothyroidism. Further studies are needed to evaluate the influence of vitamin D supplementation on thyroid autoantibody positivity or primary hypothyroidism. Hindawi 2021-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8387174/ /pubmed/34457000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/4465563 Text en Copyright © 2021 Nino Turashvili et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Turashvili, Nino
Javashvili, Lali
Giorgadze, Elene
“Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study”
title “Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study”
title_full “Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study”
title_fullStr “Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study”
title_full_unstemmed “Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study”
title_short “Vitamin D Deficiency Is More Common in Women with Autoimmune Thyroiditis: A Retrospective Study”
title_sort “vitamin d deficiency is more common in women with autoimmune thyroiditis: a retrospective study”
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8387174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34457000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/4465563
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