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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY
卷 166, 期 3, 页码 433-440出版社
BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-11-0888
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- Greenland Home Rule
- Aalborg City Christmas Lottery
- Obel Family Foundation
- Northern Jutland Research Foundation
- Danish Hospital Foundation for Medical Research, Region of Copenhagen
- Faroe Islands
- Greenland
- laegeklinikken in Nuuk
- Hans Chr. Florian Sorensen
- hospital in Tasiilaq
- nursing station in Tiniteqilaaq
- nursing station in Sermiligaaq
- nursing station in Kuummiut
- nursing station in Kulusuk
Objective: Adult man hosts brown adipose tissue with the capacity to consume energy and dissipate heat. This is essential for non-shivering thermogenesis and its activation depends on sympathetic activity and thyroid hormones. This led us to evaluate the impact of chronic cold exposure on thyroid activity and thyroid hormones in serum in Arctic residents. Design: Comparative, population-based study (n = 535) performed in Greenland. Methods: Hunters were compared with other men, and Inuit in remote settlements in East Greenland with no modern housing facilities were compared with the residents of the capital city in West Greenland and residents of a major town in East Greenland in a cross-sectional study. We used interview-based questionnaires, measured TSH, free thyroxine, free triiodothyronine (fT(3)), thyroglobulin (TG) antibody and TG (a measure of thyroid activity) in serum, and iodine and creatinine in spot urine samples. Results: Serum TG was the highest among hunters (P = 0.009) and settlement dwellers (P = 0.001), who were most markedly exposed to cold, even though they had the highest urinary iodine excretion (hunters, P < 0.001; settlement dwellers, P < 0.001). Hunters and settlement dwellers also had the lowest fT(3) (hunters, P < 0.001; settlement dwellers, P < 0.001) after adjusting for gender, age, smoking habits, alcohol intake and iodine excretion in multivariate linear regression models. TSH was not influenced by measures of cold exposure (hunter, P = 0.36; residence, P = 0.91). Conclusions: Cold exposure influenced thyroid hormones and TG in serum in Arctic populations consistent with consumption of thyroid hormone and higher thyroid hormone turnover. Findings emphasise that changes in thyroid activity are essential in cold adaptation in Arctic residents.
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