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Hashimoto's and Vitamin D

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New paper showing, as is well known, relationship between Hashimoto's and Viamin D levels. Downloadable.

Front. Endocrinol., 14 February 2020 | doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2020....

Correlation Between Hashimoto's Thyroiditis–Related Thyroid Hormone Levels and 25-Hydroxyvitamin D

Guanqun Chao*, Yue Zhu and Lizheng Fang*

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HT = Hashimoto's Thyroiditis

This bit from the Abstract surprised me :

Multiple regression analysis showed that HT was statistically significantly correlated with being male

and also this bit of info in the Discussion :

Our study found a positive correlation between men and HT. The research (12) has reported a progressively increasing frequency of HT in males.

I wonder if there was something unusual about the population of people the subjects were drawn from. This is the first time I have ever seen a thyroid problem affecting men more than women.

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diogenesRemembering in reply tohumanbean

I think they probably made a typo here and should have said "women". It seems to have got past everyone in the publication and editing process.

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humanbean in reply todiogenes

It's a rather major oversight from my point of view!

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Nanaedake in reply todiogenes

The translation or English transcript is poor and makes it difficult to understand full implications I think, only my opinion tho.

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Many modern urban men do have very low vitamin D

It says “increasing frequency of HT in males

I take it to mean the incidence of Hashimoto’s is rising as levels of vitamin D fall in male population

Obviously in traditional rural populations, men worked in the fields. Now working in factories, offices etc ...levels of vitamin D are falling dramatically in male populations

Men are also perhaps less likely to take vitamin supplements than women

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humanbean in reply toSlowDragon

I'm not denying that both sexes are likely to be very low in vitamin D.

But the paper suggests that cases of Hashi's are more common in men than women. And I simply don't believe it. There was something odd about the way their findings were reported or how the statistics were calculated.

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humanbean

And now I'm confused...

Further on in the paper it says :

To sum up, the incidence of HT was higher in the physical examination population, and it was more common in women.

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JGBH in reply tohumanbean

Rather strange indeed! There’s still a bias of “checking/testing “ towards men it seems. Women’s needs/requirements come second.

Sorry about the rant but nearly everything is done in relation to men.

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diogenesRemembering in reply tohumanbean

Looking more at the data it seems that men were 60% of the patient number actually measured for vit D. So the patient makeup stands but doesn't chime with the end statement involving women. Odd..

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humanbean in reply todiogenes

That might suggest that culture and sexism affects how likely it is for men to get medical treatment in China compared to women.

There are plenty of cultures throughout history where it is or has been considered more important for men and boys to be fed than women and girls - perhaps in some areas this extends to medical treatment too.

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