Bone loss in thyroid disease: role of low TSH and high thyroid hormone.
More than 10% of postmenopausal women in the United States receive thyroid hormone replacement therapy and up to 20% of these women are over-replaced inducing subclinical hyperthyroidism. Because hyperthyroidism and post menopausal osteoporosis overlap in women of advancing age, it is urgent to understand the effect of thyroid hormone excess on bone. We can now provide results that not thyroid hormones but also TSH itself has an equally important role to play in bone remodeling.
Abe
Etsuko
E
Mount Sinai Bone Program and The Thyroid Research Unit at the James Peter's Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. Etsuko.abe@mssm.edu
Sun
Li
L
Mechanick
Jeffrey
J
Iqbal
Jameel
J
Yamoah
Kosj
K
Baliram
Ramkumarie
R
Arabi
Ario
A
Moonga
Baljit S
BS
Davies
Terry F
TF
Zaidi
Mone
M
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications*; D017698:Postmenopause; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013972:Thyrotropin / Q000097:blood*
D013972:Thyrotropin