Thyroid hormone state and quality of life at long-term follow-up after randomized treatment of Graves’ disease
| Autor: | Göran Wallin, Mirna Abraham-Nordling, Göran Lundell, Ove Tørring |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Thyroid Hormones medicine.medical_specialty Randomization Health Status Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Graves' disease Thyrotropin Disease Iodide Peroxidase Iodine Radioisotopes Endocrinology Quality of life Surveys and Questionnaires Immunopathology Internal medicine medicine Humans Aged Autoantibodies Subclinical infection business.industry Thyroid Receptors Thyrotropin General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Graves Disease humanities Thyroxine Logistic Models Treatment Outcome medicine.anatomical_structure Multivariate Analysis Quality of Life Thyroidectomy Triiodothyronine Female business Follow-Up Studies Hormone |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Endocrinology. 156:173-179 |
| ISSN: | 1479-683X 0804-4643 |
| DOI: | 10.1530/eje.1.02336 |
| Popis: | Objective: In a 14–21 year follow-up of health-related quality of life (HRQL) outcome of 179 patients after randomized treatment of Graves’ disease (GD) with surgical, medical or radioiodine, we found no differences. The HRQL for Graves’ patients, however, was lower compared with a large age- and sex-matched Swedish reference population. We have now studied whether the reported HRQL-scores by Medical Outcome Study 36-item Short-Form Health Status Survey (SF36) and quality of life 2004 (QoL2004) answers were related to the thyroid hormone state of the patient. Methods: This report comprises 91 of the original patients in which both the results of SF36 and QoL2004 questionnaire as well as serum thyroid hormones and current use of l-thyroxine treatment were available. Results: A large number of the patients had low or undetectable serum TSH concentrations. SF36 scores and answers to QoL2004 questionnaires were not correlated to TSH levels or associated with suppressed TSH. A low free triiodothyronine was weakly associated with a low GH score (P < 0.02) and elevated thyrotropin receptor antibody with a low physical component summary (P < 0.02). Conclusion: HRQL do not seem to be influenced by the thyroid hormone state of the patient including subclinical thyrotoxicosis. It is possible that the personality of GD patients as such may have resulted both in the development of GD and lower HQRL scores later on in life. Alternatively, the generic SF36 may not be a proper instrument to detect relevant differences in HRQL related to the thyroid state. |
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