Dallas Scientists Discover Statins May Falsely Indicate Thyroid Problems
... more specialized diagnostics than the simple TSH tests. These new tests showed that the majority of patients on statins who appeared to be hyperthyroid by TSH tests actually had normal thyroid function. The tests also confirmed that the majority of patients not taking statins did indeed have thyroid ...Patients need to know that nuclear medicine procedures can trigger radiation alarms
... including cardiac stress tests; positron emission tomography (PET), bone, lung and renal scans; thyroid uptake studies; whole body scans; I-131 hyperthyroid treatments; I-131 Bexxar cancer treatments; and brachytherapy. For the study, 89 health care professionals (including doctors, nuclear medicine ...Study links cat disease to flame retardants in furniture and to pet food
... found to be elevated in blood samples of hyperthyroid cats. Their findings were based on analysis of ... feline hyperthyroidism (FH). PBDE levels in the hyperthyroid cats were three times as high as those in ... Australia, Japan and many parts of Europe. hyperthyroid disorders have also increased in humansformer ...