1 Altmetric Metrics Abstract Background Thyroid hormones are essential for normal development and function of the central nervous system
July 06, 2022
Atrial fibrillation, levothyroxine treatment, and dementia are common among older adults, yet little is known about the effects of levothyroxine on the development of dementia
Levothyroxine injection is used in
encephalopathy, and dementia
Levothyroxine is also used in adults along with surgery and radioactive iodine therapy to treat a certain type of thyroid cancer
The study population included all adults with diagnosed AF (n = 156,104) aged ≥ 45 years in Sweden without an earlier recorded diagnosis of dementia
Recently, several population-based studies demonstrated an association between hypo- or hyperthyroidism and Alzheimer's disease
She was a 92-year-old female with advanced Alzheimer's dementia residing in a nursing home
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A randomized controlled trial will be needed to resolve this issue
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Investigators Another early dementia symptom is the inability to express feelings
Levothyroxine comes as an oral tablet, oral capsule, and intravenous An evaluation of the commonly held view that hypothyroid dementia is an imminently reversible condition is only partially supported by the medical literature, which is fraught with methodological and conceptual shortcomings
Methods The study No significant association of levothyroxine treatment and incident dementia among patients with AF is found, neither among men and women, nor in different age-groups or subgroups of dementia
Hyperthyroidism, also known as an overactive thyroid, happens when the body produces too much thyroid hormone
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