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THYROID
Volume 26, Issue 9, Pages 1205-1214Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2015.0410
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- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
- Ministry for Education, Research and Cultural Affairs
- Ministry for Social Affairs of the State Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
- German Research Foundation [DFG-SPP 1629 ThyroidTransAct: VO955/12-1]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) as part of the Collaborative Research Center Heart failure in the elderly-cellular mechanisms and therapy'' at the Medical Faculty of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg [598]
- Wilhelm-Roux Programme of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- Federal Employment Office
- Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt
- Danish Medical Research Council
- Danish Centre for Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment, Novo Nordisk, Copenhagen County
- Danish Heart Foundation
- Danish Pharmaceutical Association
- Augustinus foundation
- Ib Henriksens foundation
- Beckett foundation
- Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)
- Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE)
- Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
- Ministry of Health Welfare and Sports
- the European Commission (DG XII)
- Municipality of Rotterdam
- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen
- German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH)
- German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology
- State of Bavaria
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG VO 955/12-1]
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Background: Except from associations study with body weight, there are few longitudinal data regarding the association between thyroid function and anthropometric measurements such as waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to height ratio. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the association of thyrotropin (TSH) at baseline with changes in different anthropometric markers between baseline and follow-up in the general population. Method: Data were used from four population-based longitudinal cohort studies and one population-based cross-sectional study. A total of 16,902 (8204 males) subjects aged 20-95 years from the general population were studied. Body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist-to-height ratio were measured. Multivariable median regression models were calculated adjusting for the following covariates: age, sex, baseline value of the respective anthropometric marker, smoking status, follow-up-time period, and study site. Results: In cross-sectional analyses, serum TSH within the reference range was positively associated with waist circumference (beta = 0.94 cm [confidence interval (CI) 0.56-1.32]) and waist-to-height-ratio (beta = 0.029 [CI 0.017-0.042]). These associations were also present for the full range of TSH. In the longitudinal analyses, serum TSH at baseline was inversely associated with a five-year change of all considered anthropometric measures within the prior defined study-specific reference range, as well as in the full range of serum TSH. Conclusion: High TSH serum levels were positively associated with current anthropometric markers, even in the study-specific reference ranges. In contrast, high TSH serum levels were associated with decreased anthropometric markers over a time span of approximately five years. Further research is needed to determine possible clinical implications as well as public health consequences of these findings.
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