Epidemiology of thyroid disorders in the Lifelines Cohort Study (the Netherlands)
Hanneke Wouters, Sandra Slagter, Anneke Muller Kobold,
Gepubliceerd: November 25, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242795
Resultaten
Van de 152180 deelnemers was de gemiddelde (± SD) leeftijd 44,6 ± 13,1 jaar en 58,5% was vrouw. Schildkliermedicatie werd gebruikt door 4790 deelnemers (3,1%); de meerderheid (98,2%) gebruikte levothyroxine en 88% waren vrouw. 59,3% van de levothyroxinegebruikers had normale TSH-waarden.Conclusies
Niet gedetecteerde schildklieraandoeningen kwamen veel voor in de algemene bevolking, terwijl de prevalentie van het gebruik van schildkliermedicatie 3,1% was. Minder dan 60% van de personen die levothyroxine gebruikten, had een normaal TSH-niveau. De grote groep individuen met subklinische hypothyreoïdie (9,4%) biedt een uitstekende mogelijkheid om prospectief het natuurlijke beloop van deze aandoening te volgen. Zowel gestructureerde vragen als links naar gegevens van huisartsen en apothekers zijn nodig om de volledigheid en betrouwbaarheid van de gegevens van Lifelines over schildklieraandoeningen te verbeteren.Citation: Wouters HJCM, Slagter SN, Muller Kobold AC, van der Klauw MM, Wolffenbuttel BHR (2020) Epidemiology of thyroid disorders in the Lifelines Cohort Study (the Netherlands). PLoS ONE 15(11): e0242795. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242795
Editor: Silvia Naitza, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ITALY
Received: May 8, 2020; Accepted: November 10, 2020; Published: November 25, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 Wouters et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: The manuscript is based on data from the Lifelines Cohort Study, Study OV15-0306. Lifelines adheres to standards for data availability. Due to ethical restrictions imposed by the Lifelines Scientific Board and the Medical Ethical Committee of the University Medical Center Groningen related to protecting patient privacy, the data are not publicly available. The data catalogue of Lifelines is publicly accessible on https://www.lifelines.nl/researcher/data-and-biobank/$6102/$6104. All international researchers can obtain data at the Lifelines research office (research@lifelines.nl), for which a fee is required. The Lifelines system allows access for reproducibility of the study results.
Funding: The Lifelines Biobank initiative has been made possible by subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG the Netherlands), University Groningen and the Northern Provinces of the Netherlands. The current work was supported by the National Consortium for Healthy Ageing, and funds from the European Union's Seventh Framework program (FP7/2007-2013) through the BioSHaRE-EU (Biobank Standardisation and Harmonisation for Research Excellence in the European Union) project, grant agreement 261433. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Reacties
Een reactie posten