SOURCE: MedPage Today
DATE: July 28, 2008
EXCERPT: "Abnormal levels of the hormone thyrotropin, which controls thyroid function, may be associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease in women, researchers found. Alzheimer's disease was more than twice as common among women with the highest and lowest levels of serum thyrotropin compared with those in the more normal range (P<0.001 and P=0.003, respectively), .... However, the associations did not extend to men for either high or low levels of the hormone in the analysis of the longitudinal Framingham Study. more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Tan ZS, Beiser AS, Vasan RS, Roubenoff R, Dinarello CA, Harris TB, Benjamin EJ, Au R, Kiel DP, Wolf PA, Seshadri S. Abstract. Inflammatory markers and the risk of Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Study. Neurology. 2007 May 29;68(22):1902-8. Full text of article
DATE: July 28, 2008
EXCERPT: "Abnormal levels of the hormone thyrotropin, which controls thyroid function, may be associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease in women, researchers found. Alzheimer's disease was more than twice as common among women with the highest and lowest levels of serum thyrotropin compared with those in the more normal range (P<0.001 and P=0.003, respectively), .... However, the associations did not extend to men for either high or low levels of the hormone in the analysis of the longitudinal Framingham Study. more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Tan ZS, Beiser AS, Vasan RS, Roubenoff R, Dinarello CA, Harris TB, Benjamin EJ, Au R, Kiel DP, Wolf PA, Seshadri S. Abstract. Inflammatory markers and the risk of Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Study. Neurology. 2007 May 29;68(22):1902-8. Full text of article
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