Stomach acid interacts with thyroid hormone treatment

Two hundred forty-eight patients with multinodular goiter who were receiving treatment with thyroxine were studied. Fifty-three of the patients also had Helicobacter pylori-related gastritis and 60 had atrophic gastritis (31 with evidence of H. pylori infection and 29 without such...

Cane is not able

One hundred-forty three patients with hypercholesterolemia or combined hyperlipidemia were randomly assigned to receive, in double-blind fashion, sugar cane policosanol (10, 20, 40, or 80 mg/day) or placebo for 12 weeks. In none of the five treatment groups did the...

Flavonoids for menorrhagia

Thirty-six women (mean age, 33.3 years; range, 20-45 years) with a history of idiopathic menorrhagia (excessive menstrual bleeding) for a mean duration of 11.7 months received 1,000 mg/day of Daflon (containing 90% diosmin and 10% hesperidin) beginning five days prior...

N-acetylcysteine for polycystic ovary syndrome

One hundred-fifty overweight or obese infertile women (mean age, 29 years; range, 18-39 years) with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) who had failed to ovulate after treatment with clomiphene citrate were randomly assigned to receive, in double-blind fashion, 600 mg of...

High iodine intake associated with thyroiditis and hypothyroidism

Salt has been iodized in China since 1996, resulting in an increase in iodine intake throughout the country. In a 1999 study, researchers observed an increase in the prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis, overt hypothyroidism, and subclinical hypothyroidism with increasing iodine...