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Overlooked, Under-Diagnosed? Thyroid Disease Poses a
Challenge
By Susan J. Landers
American Medical News
For such a small gland, the thyroid is certainly causing a big flap.
There is conflicting advice over how widely to screen for asymptomatic
thyroid disease: Everyone? Pregnant women? People older than 35? Women
older than 60?
When it comes to determining an answer, "there is chaos in the medical
community," says Terry Davies, M.D., a professor of medicine at Mount
Sinai School of Medicine in New York and director of the division of
endocrinology.
And even when patients complain of symptoms that could signal a
dysfunction in the thyroid, the problem is still being missed, some
endocrinologists say.
Thus, that butterfly-shaped regulator of metabolic processes presents
primary-care doctors with a peculiar conundrum. They are well aware of
the range of disorders that affect the thyroid, but there is still
considerable debate about patients who slip through the cracks. Add to
this a growing discord over screening, and this small gland becomes more
complicated.
For starters, the slow onset of the vague symptoms that can accompany
the most common form of thyroid disease, hypothyroidism, trips up many
primary care physicians who are swamped every day with patients who are
fatigued, depressed or gaining weight, says Paul Ladenson, M.D., a
professor and director of endocrinology and metabolism at Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions. He estimates that almost half the people with
thyroid dysfunction are not properly diagnosed.
Donald Bergman, M.D., president of the American Association of Clinical
Endocrinologists, includes a swipe at the nation's health care system.
"Why aren't people doing a simple blood test to figure out if patients
have mild thyroid disease before they get symptomatic?" he said.
"You name an illness and I'll give you a bad statistic," he continued.
"Do you know how many people with osteoporotic hip fractures are treated
for osteoporosis? Fewer than 30 percent. You would agree that lowering
your cholesterol level is good for your heart? Do you know what's
happened to the overall cholesterol levels in this country over the last
10 years? Nothing."
Treating an illness before it happens or at least before it progresses
is not how American medicine works, Dr. Bergman continues. "It's not the
way insurance works. It's not the way Medicare works."
Thyroid dysfunction is most often mistaken for a psychiatric disease,
says Dr. Davies. When the thyroid is overactive, it's mistaken for
anxiety. When it's underactive, it's mistaken for depression.
"It's not unusual for patients to get passed from doctor to doctor
before anyone gets the message."
There is strong evidence that thyroid diseases are common. Researchers
tested the blood levels of thyroid stimulating hormone in 26,000
visitors to a statewide health fair in Colorado and determined that
nearly 10 percent had an undetected abnormality -- double the number of
people thought to have a dysfunctioning thyroid. That research was
published in the Feb. 28, 2000, Archives of Internal Medicine.
The researchers also found that nearly 40 percent of those who were
taking thyroid medication still had abnormal TSH levels, indicating a
need for closer monitoring.
More than eight out of 10 patients with thyroid disease are women.
"There are a tremendous number of women who are on thyroid supplements
because their thyroids just aren't functioning adequately," says Mary Jo
Welker, M.D., chairwoman and professor of clinical family medicine at
Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health in Columbus.
But Dr. Welker would beg to differ that most symptomatic patients are
not referred for tests. "When patients come in and they're depressed or
tired one of the first things physicians try to check for is thyroid
disorder. They are checking for people who have symptoms, not screening
for people who don't have symptoms."
Treatment Is More Clear-Cut
Even if it isn't easy to decide who to screen, at least the TSH test
provides a straightforward way to make the determination to treat. "The
only hard part about making the diagnosis of an underactive or
overactive thyroid gland is thinking about the possibility," Dr.
Ladenson says. "Once that occurs, it's very easy in the laboratory to
rule these disorders in or out."
The TSH test, which actually measures a pituitary gland hormone, has
made a big difference in checking the thyroid's role in the body's
feedback system that links the hypothalamus, pituitary and thyroid.
Although it has been around for several years, the sensitivity of the
newer versions of the test have improved enormously, Dr. Bergman said.
Thyroid diseases are often treated and monitored by primary care
physicians, who should be on the alert that patients can ask for TSH
tests now that the American Assn. of Clinical Endocrinologists and the
American Thyroid Assn. launched a joint campaign to highlight Thyroid
Awareness Month in January. Their campaign urged everyone older than 35
to ask their physicians for TSH blood tests.
But that advice runs counter to recommendations against widespread
screening that were made in two separate reports released in January.
One review of existing data, published in the Jan. 14 JAMA, led a panel
of doctors to recommend against routine population screening for
subclinical thyroid disease because of the lack of evidence to support
benefit.
That panel did recommend screening and treatment for women who are
pregnant or older than 60, as well as others at high risk. Thyroid
disease is associated with poor outcomes in pregnancy, and its
prevalence is known to increase in older women.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force tackled the issue and
also reported in January that existing evidence is insufficient to
recommend either for or against routine screening for thyroid disease in
adults.
With the screening question open, physician judgment rules. "It is
basically left up to the individual physician, which is as it should
be," Dr. Bergman says.
Which patients are screened and treated may depend on training.
Physicians who specialize in thyroid disease are much more likely to
place a high priority on screening, Dr. Welker says. "But the evidence
doesn't really support screening asymptomatic patients." The American
Academy of Family Physicians recommends against routine thyroid
screening in asymptomatic patients younger than 60.
Eighty percent of people with thyroid diseases are women.
At the very least every woman either before pregnancy or in early
pregnancy should have her thyroid tested, Dr. Davies advises. "It's been
four years since I wrote an editorial asking why aren't the medical
associations saying every woman in early pregnancy should be screened
for thyroid disease. But it's still not standard of care."
Dr. Davies would go even further and incorporate thyroid tests into all
routine medical exams. But he allows that cost is an issue. Labs charge
$40 to $50 for the test, and when you multiply that by 100 million
people, it adds up quickly.
Dr. Welker agrees that the cost would be high, and because guidelines
don't recommend routine screenings, insurance companies don't generally
cover them.
But Dr. Ladenson studied the cost-effectiveness of screening all adults
older than 35 every five years for thyroid disease and found that
thyroid screening rivaled the cost-effectiveness of screening for high
cholesterol.
He would like to see a blood test for thyroid disease added to the
recommended schedule of check-ups and cholesterol screenings.
Conditions to Prevent
Thyroid disorders are best detected early before they can trigger other
medical problems. The thyroid hormone affects virtually all metabolic
processes; too much speeds up metabolism, while too little slows it
down.
Studies have found that even a slight decrease in thyroid function could
increase cholesterol levels. "So patients cannot know what their correct
cholesterol is until their thyroid has been repaired," Dr. Davies says.
Thyroid failure leads to retained fluid, which even can trigger carpal
tunnel syndrome among those who have a propensity for it, he adds.
Thyroid disease is particularly dangerous during pregnancy. Thyroid
hormone is critical for the baby's brain development. Hypothyroidism has
been associated with maternal anemia and myopathy in pregnant women.
Hyperthyroidism has been associated with premature infants and
preeclampsia.
Treatment for hypothyroidism by replacement thyroid hormone can quickly
lead to dramatic improvements, Dr. Bergman says. "The classic expression
is, 'The fog has lifted.'"
There are three unappealing choices for an overactive thyroid, Dr.
Davies explains. "You can cut the gland out, destroy it with
radioactivity or provide tablets that have some potential side effects.
In my practice I start almost everyone on the tablets."
In November 2002, AACE published revised guidelines that narrowed the
range for normal thyroid function from the old TSH of 0.5 mIU/L to 5.0
mIU/L, to 0.3 mIU/L to 3.0 mIU/L.
"The thyroid gland is uniquely vulnerable to the kinds of radiation
exposures that are likely to occur with either atmospheric nuclear
testing, as was the case in the 1950s, or today with accidents or
terrorism at nuclear power facilities," says Paul Ladenson, MD,
professor and director of endocrinology and metabolism at Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions.
Thyroid cells are especially designed to concentrate iodine and would
absorb radioactive iodine from a nuclear incident as efficiently as they
do iodine from food. Experiences from Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl
have shown that children are at particular risk for thyroid cancer after
exposure to radioactive iodine. The best way to achieve protection is to
fill the thyroid with potassium iodide.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that households within 10
miles of a nuclear power plant keep KI, a harmless form of iodine, on
hand. Schools and child-care facilities within the same radius also
should have immediate access to KI, the AAP advises.
In addition, the American Thyroid Assn. recommends that households
within 50 miles of a nuclear plant have KI available. And the federal
government has added KI to its national stockpile of medications to be
quickly distributed across the country if needed.
"Although potassium iodide is not a bulletproof vest that protects
against all radiation exposure, it is, nevertheless, a very important
measure," Dr. Ladenson says. "By giving large amounts of nonradioactive
iodine, we can block the uptake of radioactive iodine."
While the distribution of KI makes sense medically because it is highly
effective with minimal side effects, there are logistical challenges,
Dr. Ladenson says.
One study done in the vicinity of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in
Tennessee found that two years after KI was distributed to households in
the region, only 50 percent of the people could remember where it was or
why they were supposed to take it, he adds.
LENA'S NOTE: This article points out more problems that exist
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Allergies Got You Down?
It may be simply a fact of elevating your EFA's (essential fatty acids).
When an individual is low in EFAs, he/she will develop allergies to
things such as corn and wheat, cats or dogs, detergent, dust, feathers,
or wool.
By replenishing the body's stores of essential fatty acids, these
allergies will usually go away. Allergies often go away when the
NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY that caused them is addressed. In other words, no
one should be allergic to wheat forever. The key is to replenish the
EFAs.
What about the asthma? Turns out LOW EFAs also cause respiratory
problems such as asthma and emphysema.
There are a whole host of other symptoms that result from a deficiency
of essential fatty acids. Following are a number of symptoms that could
be improved by increasing one?s intake of EFAs:
* Alopecia (patchy hair loss)
* Brittle hair; split ends
* Brittle nails
* Bleeding gums
* Chapped lips
* Dry eyes
* Enlarged pores
* Easy bruising (can also be due to a vitamin C and bioflavonoid
deficiency)
* Eczema
* Gritty feeling in the eyes or dryness
* Hair loss
* Hardening of the arteries
* Headaches
* Heart attack
* History of miscarriages
* Infertility
* Irritability/nervousness
* Memory loss
* Nose bleeds
* Patches of hair that are unmanageable; they stick up on end
* PMS
* Poor wound healing
* Psoriasis
* Skin problems such as dry, flaky skin or dry patches of skin
A study published in January, 2001 in the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) studied the diets of 80,000 female nurses
over the course of 14 years. They found that stroke due to blood clots
could be reduced by 50 percent by eating fish two to four times per
week. In October, 2000 the American Heart Association released new
guidelines recommending that everyone eat at least two 3-ounce servings
of fish every week.
You don't like fish or aren't eating sufficient quantity due to the
mercury poisoning now occurring then supplement
Daily consuming these fats is very important for your good health and
vitality. Eat more fish and make the supplements part of your daily
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Every one agrees that Vitamin D IS VERY IMPORTANT and an absolute must
to be healthy! The controversy lies in the amount!
You are confused though because you intended to purchase some Vitamin D
and you went to the store to purchase Vitamin D but couldn't find a
supplement with large doses that you read should be taken. When you
asked the clerk for higher dosed capsules you are told that more than
1,000 IU is toxic and will remove calcium from your body? Is that true?
Why do you need Vitamin D? How much do you need?
It's spring in half the world and sun is shining with soon-to-be crispy
bodies on the loose.
The other half of the world is getting ready for the cold wintry
seasonal affective disorders (SAD).
The western half of the world is seeing ads for sunblocks and are told
by dermatologists to wear sunblock when going out into the sun. Is it a
good idea to wear sunblock every time you go out in the sunshine? Should
you listen?
Yes, sunblock is necessary if you spend hours out in the sun, you will
be a crispy soul and
you may become ill! So a day at the beach requires a "natural" sunblock
But be sure to
slather on virgin olive oil at the end of the day! See "Basting With
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On the other hand, the half of the world that is heading into winter and
will not get sufficient Vitamin D. No to sunblock unless you will be
outside all day or all afternoon!
Sunblocks contain a lot of chemicals that is even more Dangerous to your
body than the sun so shop for natural only!
Without sunlight all kinds of problems occur such as; Depression,
anxiety, SAD, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue and more. The scientific
community now believes that
inadequate sunlight bears a direct link to each of those problems.
Summer does not guarantee sufficient sunlight to give your body the
needed Vitamin D. A full two-thirds
of society are indoor people, whether it be due to working sunup to
sundown indoors or just not finding the time to get out in the sunlight!
Your problem may be from never seeing the light of day or it could be
from using sunblock that prevents the body from absorbing the D vitamins
that it needs or not taking a Vitamin D supplement to give your body the
needed amount!
Without Vitamin D intake you can become extremely ill! Doses as high as
4,000 IU is recommended, if you never get outside in the sun!
Do you know of any children (or adults) with attention deficit disorder?
This condition is strongly correlated with unnatural light entering the
eyes as well. You see, when the light hits the optic nerve, it is
carried to other parts of the brain in addition to the vision center.
Particularly it is carried to the hypothalamus where it is an essential
nutrient to regulate hormone balance and autonomic nerve balance.
Lacking vitamin D ADD!
Also if you want strong bones and heart you need to absorb calcium. You
must have adequate D, magnesium and other trace minerals such as boron
in order to absorb
sufficient calcium.
Since the store clerk may say that over 1,000 IU of Vitamin D is toxic
and will leach the calcium from your Body, what is the real story?
In 1999, Dr. Reinhold Vieth, perhaps the world's leading expert on
vitamin D toxicity and metabolism, wrote a review debunking the world's
literature and hysteria surrounding fears of vitamin D toxicity. Two
years later, Heaney, et al, demonstrated the safety of doses up to
10,000 IU a day.
However, there are a few things you should probably understand before
taking large quantities of vitamin D supplements. The first thing is
that there are two types of vitamin D supplements: vitamin
cholecalciferol (D3) that comes from fish oil, eggs, organ meats, animal
fat, and plant sources, and ergocalciferol (D2) a synthetic form, which
is known to be toxic at the higher doses.
The healthiest form or Vitamin D comes from the sunlight, so go out and
get 20 or 30 minutes a day and be healthy. But if you can't and do
supplement with vitamin D, you
need to pay close attention to which type you're taking. Natural is
always better, synthetic is not!
Be healthy and gets some exercise and sunlight!
Lena
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FOOD OF THE
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"An apple a day keeps the doctor away!" is really
true!
Apples are known to help keep the immune system healthy
Apples are a marvelous anti-aging food. They stabilize blood sugar,
lower blood pressure, control the appetite and keep the cardiovascular
system healthy.
Researchers have found that those who eat more apples tend to have a
lower incidence of colds and upper respiratory ailments. In 2003 it was
reported by one study group that those who ate apples could probably
avoid asthma.
There are numerous types of apples but they vary very little in the
nutrient content, so eat whichever type you prefer and expect basically
the same results!
* Apples have no fat, cholesterol or sodium, and a medium-size apple
contains only 80 calories.
* A medium-size apple provides five grams of dietary fiber - 20 percent
of the recommended daily intake. This is more than oatmeal or most
breakfast cereal, which can lower cholesterol as well as keep your
intestines healthy and moving as they should!
* Apple sauce, apple juice and apple cider are a tasty way to get your
minimum five servings of fruits and vegetables per day for optimum
health. Six ounces of apple juice or apple cider or one-half cup (4
ounces) of apple sauce count as one daily fruit serving.
* Apples contain pectin, a water-soluble fiber found to reduce levels of
cholesterol by removing it from the blood stream.
* Apples are a good source of potassium, which may help to maintain
healthy blood pressure.
* Apples contain complex carbohydrates that give you energy faster than
eating something high in sugar.
* Apples contain boron, an essential trace element that helps to harden
bones, which may reduce the onset of osteoporosis.
* Apples have been shown to be better than coffee or caffeine to give
you that morning boost of energy!
Be sure to eat the skin (wash it first) because it contains pectin
fiber, a soluble type of fiber, which is a well known anti-cholesterol
agent.
Around our house we prefer apples raw or cooked whole as desert.
Core the apple and trim the bottom of the apple.
Place it in an oven safe dish.
Fill the apple core hole with butter and brown sugar, cover dish with
foil and bake in a preheated 350F degree oven for about 40 minutes. If
you have more than two apples extend baking time by 5 minutes per apple.
Or place butter and brown sugar filled apples in a microwave safe dish
and microwave as you would a baked potato.
Eating an apple a day will keep the doctor away as well as keep you
younger in many ways.
Popular Pain Reliever Linked to Asthma
Findings 'Compelling' but Must Be Confirmed
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Medical News
March 26, 2004 -- Intriguing new research suggests a link between the
increasing use of the pain reliever acetaminophen and a dramatic rise in
asthma cases. The findings are far from conclusive, but researchers say
the potential association deserves further study.
Women taking part in a large, ongoing health study were more likely to
be diagnosed with adult-onset asthma if they reported taking greater
amounts of the analgesic found in Tylenol and many other
over-the-counter pain medications.
Those who took acetaminophen 15 or more days a month were estimated to
have a 60% greater risk of developing asthma than women who did not take
acetaminophen at all.
"If acetaminophen use is found to be responsible for this increase in
risk, it would have enormous implications at the public health level,"
lead researcher R. Graham Barr, MD, tells WebMD. "But the message
certainly is not that everybody should stop using acetaminophen
tomorrow."
Nurses' Health Study
It is not clear why, but the number of asthma cases in the United States
has more than doubled in less than three decades. During the same time,
acetaminophen use grew as the popularity of aspirin for pain and fever
relief declined. This was especially true among young children following
reports in the early 1980s linking childhood aspirin use to a
potentially fatal condition known as Reye's syndrome.
A 1999 study involving almost 2,000 children with asthma under the age
of 2 found asthma-related hospital visits to be significantly higher
among the children who took acetaminophen than among those who took
ibuprofen.
In the latest study, published in the April issue of the American
Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, researchers analyzed
data from the 121,700-participant Nurses' Health Study to determine if
acetaminophen use might be linked to asthma.
Acetaminophen usage was recorded at the beginning of the observation
period, and 346 new cases of asthma were identified between 1990 and
1996. More frequent use of acetaminophen was found to be associated with
a greater risk of being diagnosed with asthma.
Barr says acetaminophen may predispose susceptible people to asthma by
decreasing levels of an antioxidant in the lungs. It has been suggested
that the antioxidant helps protect the lungs against free radicals --
unstable compounds that destroy cells. Lower levels of antioxidants may
predispose people to lung injury and spasm in the lung airways, which is
characteristic of asthma.
"We are not trying to scare everyone away from one analgesic in favor of
another," he says. "It may be that the side effects of many analgesics
are more complicated than we realize."
More Study Needed
LENA'S NOTE:Even if more study is needed I know that where
there is smoke there is more than likely fire, especially in the medical
studies! So stay away from aspirin!
U.N. Warns About Ocean 'Dead Zones'
By HANS GREIMEL
JEJU, South Korea (AP) - So-called "dead zones," oxygen-starved areas of
the world's oceans that are devoid of fish, top the list of emerging
environmental challenges, the United Nations Environment Program warned
Monday in its global overview.
The spreading zones have doubled over the last decade and pose as big a
threat to fish stocks as overfishing, UNEP said its Global Environment
Outlook Year Book 2003, released at the opening of the agency's 8th
summit for the world's environment ministers.
The new findings tally nearly 150 dead zones around the globe, double
the number in 1990, with some stretching 27,000 square miles.
Dead zones have long afflicted the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay,
but are now spreading to other bodies of water, such as the Baltic Sea,
Black Sea, Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Thailand and Yellow Sea, as other
regions develop, UNEP said.
They are also appearing off South America, Japan, Australia and New
Zealand.
The main cause is excess nitrogen run-off from farm fertilizers, sewage
and industrial pollutants. The nitrogen triggers blooms of microscopic
algae known as phytoplankton. As the algae die and rot, they consume
oxygen, thereby suffocating everything from clams and lobsters to
oysters and fish.
"Human kind is engaged in a gigantic, global, experiment as a result of
inefficient and often overuse of fertilizers, the discharge of untreated
sewage and the ever rising emissions from vehicles and factories," UNEP
Executive Director Klaus Toepfer said in a statement.
"Unless urgent action is taken to tackle the sources of the problem, it
is likely to escalate rapidly," Toepfer said.
UNEP urged nations to cooperate in reducing the amount of nitrogen
discharged into their coastal waters, in part by cutting back on
fertilizer use or planting more forests and grasslands along feeder
rivers to soak up the excess nitrogen.
The announcement comes as environment ministers from more than 150
nations gathered on the South Korean resort island of Jeju at UNEP's 8th
Special Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment
Forum.
Increasingly frequent dust and sand storms and impending global water
shortages will also headline the three-day summit.
UNEP warns that without concerted effort to improve access to safe
drinking water, a third of the world's population is likely to suffer
chronic water shortages within a few decades. About 1.1 billion people
lacked access to safe drinking water in 2000, while another 2.4 billion
lacked access to basic sanitation, UNEP said.
The growing frequency of dust and sand storms is another concern,
especially storms caused by land degradation and desertification in
Mongolia and northern China.
Scientists have recently linked similar storms, originating in the
Sahara, with damage to coral reefs in the Caribbean, UNEP said.
Discussions in Jeju will form a basis for deliberations at the 12th
meeting of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development to be held in
New York next month.
That meeting will assess progress toward United Nations targets of
halving the proportion of people with no access to safe drinking water
or basic sanitation by 2015.
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