Fasting is one of Islamic Five Pillars and it is an Islamic obligations. Even though fasting during Ramadan month is an obligatory, if this obligatory has dangerous effects on the human health, it is forbidden. In On the other hand, atypical levels of thyroid hormones can create serious problems for human body and normal range of these hormones is indicative of good thyroid function. The presen...

background: several concomitant disorders especially thyroid abnormalities have been reported in patients with myasthenia gravis (mg). we aimed to estimate the frequency and pattern of thyroid disorders in iranian patients with mg.all consecutive patients with mg referred to neurology clinic of rasool-e-akram hospital during 2006-2007 were enrolled. methods: all patients underwent clinical asse...

Background: Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (anti-TPO antibody) is a member of thyroid autoantibodies which are important in inducing and also diagnosing autoimmune thyroid diseases. Thyroid autoimmunity can cause several forms of thyroiditis and abnormal thyroid functions, ranging from hypothyroidism to hyperthyroidism. Objective: To evaluate the relationship between serum levels of anti-TPO ...

investigations regarding the relationship between bone mineral density (bmd) and thyroid function tests even in the normal range are limited. therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between bmd with thyroid function tests in elderly people. this study is a part of a prospective study about health status of the elderly people in amirkola city (ahap) which is on...

background: thyroid function disorders, particularly congenital hypothyroidism (cht), are important endocrine dysfunctions associated with permanent morbidities. cht is more prevalent among preterm low-birth-weight neonates compared to term infants with normal weight. methods: this prospective cohort study was conducted on 126 very-low-birth-weight (vlbw) neonates referred to the neonatal inten...

introduction: imatinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor which resulted in much improvement in the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia (cml), may adversely affect thyroid gland function. to date, assessment of thyroid function during imatinib therapy has limited to retrospective studies. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of imatinib on thyroid function in a prospective manner. ...

A normal pregnancy results in a number of important physiological and hormonal changes that alter thyroid function. These changes mean that laboratory tests of thyroid function must be interpreted with caution during pregnancy. Levels of thyroxine binding globulin (TBG) and production of T3 and T4 hormones and the daily requirement of iodine in pregnancy are increased to 50%, TSH receptor stimu...

there are numerous, often contradictory reports on the effect of growth hormone (gh) therapy on thyroid function. these reports prompted us to evaluate the impact of gh therapy on thyroid function in previously euthyroid children with gh deficiency. twenty five clinically and biochemically euthyroid children with gh deficiency were studied. a thyroid profile (t4, free t4, t3 and tsh) was perfor...

background: infections attributed to helicobacter pylori ( h. pylori ) involve almost half of the world's population. one of the effects is auto-antibody induction and cross-reaction with numerous proteins in the body. as a result of its widespread prevalence and importance, this study evaluates the associations between h. pylori and thyroid auto-antibodies. materials and methods: this study en...