Type 2 Diabetes - Low Thyroid Function in Diabetes
Some studies show people who have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes are also at risk for hypothyroidism, where the thyroid gland does not make enough hormone. Low thyroid levels, in addition to other signs and symptoms, can cause weight gain, so it is doubly important for people who are classed as being prediabetic or who have Type 2 diabetes, also have normal thyroid hormone levels.
In January and February of 2018, the Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism reported on a study from the Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research in West Bengal, India. Scientists there found out of one hundred people with Type 2 diabetes...
23 had slightly low levels of thyroid hormone, and
3 had full-blown hypothyroidism.
From these results, the researchers concluded one-quarter of people with Type 2 diabetes have low levels of thyroid hormone.
In December of 2017, the journal Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome reported on a study conducted at the Rajiv Aligarh Muslim University and several other research facilities in India. A total of two hundred and fifty people with Type 2 diabetes were tested for thyroid hormone levels. Twenty-eight percent of these diabetics had at least somewhat low levels.
In October of 2017, the journal Acta Med Indonesia reported much the same results in a different population. Scientists at the Universitas in Indonesia tested the thyroid hormone levels in three hundred and three Type 2 diabetics...
a total of 23 participants, more than 7 percent, had full-blown hypothyroidism.
a little over half, 56.5 percent, had at least a small degree of low thyroid levels.
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