Clinically relevant thyroid disorders and inflammatory bowel disease are inversely related: a retrospective case-control study.

CONCLUSIONS: Overall, in our study, the risk of TDs was lower in IBD patients. To assess routinely hormones and/or thyroid gland imaging in the absence of clinical signs or symptoms seems unnecessary in IBD patients, at least in our geographic area. PMID: 33327797 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Scand J Gastroenterol Source Type: research