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ey0018.3-14 | Clinical studies | ESPEYB18

3.14. Identification of resistance to exogenous thyroxine in humans

N Lacamara , B Lecumberri , B Barquiel , A Escribano , I Gonzalez-Casado , C Alvarez-Escola , F Aleixandre-Blanquer , F Morales , R Alfayate , MC Bernal-Soriano , R Miralles , I Yildirim Simsir , AG Ozgen , J Bernal , P Berbel , JC Moreno

Thyroid. 2020;30:1732–1744. doi: 10.1089/thy.2019.0825.This study is of importance, revealing a relevant clinical problem in patients under long-term levothyroxine (LT4) substitution and challenging the concept that all hypothyroid patients can be well controlled with LT4 monotherapy.Lacámara et al. present a small but elegant clinical study describi...

ey0019.10-4 | Mechanisms | ESPEYB19

10.4. Childhood body size directly increases type 1 diabetes risk based on a lifecourse Mendelian randomization approach

TG Richardson , DJM Crouch , GM Power , F Morales-Berstein , E Hazelwood , S Fang , Y Cho , JRJ Inshaw , CC Robertson , C Sidore , F Cucca , SS Rich , JA Todd , Smith G Davey

Nat Commun. 2022 Apr 28;13(1):2337. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35484151/Brief Summary: This Mendelian randomization study analysed genetic data from 454,023 individuals from the UK Biobank and 15,573 type 1 diabetes (T1D) cases from other cohorts and provides strong evidence that larger childhood body size increases T1D risk, independently from body size at birth and during adulthood.<...