Thyroid Research

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Thyroid Research is an online journal that aims to present the newest knowledge related to thyroid hormones, thyroid diseases and any related fields. The journal’s regular readership includes researchers, clinicians and healthcare providers across the world.

Thyroid Research encompasses a wide range of thyroidology topics including, diagnosis, pharmacological and other treatment methods, invasive treatment, physiological mechanisms of thyroid hormone action and regulation, immunological aspects, genetics, new guidelines in disease management, thyroid related diseases and complications.

Featured article: Iodine intake as a risk factor for thyroid cancer: a comprehensive review of animal and human studies

Thyroid cancer incidence and urinary iodine concentration evolution

Zimmermann and Galetti. Thyroid Research 2015 8:8 DOI: 10.1186/s13044-015-0020-8

In this review by Michael Zimmermann and Valerie Galetti, the evidence linking iodine intake with thyroid cancer is analysed. The authors also perform a new meta-analysis of pooled measures of effect from case–control studies of total iodine intake and thyroid cancer. They also look at post-Chernobyl studies linking iodine status and risk of thyroid cancer after radiation exposure.

Editors' profiles

Prof Andrzej Lewinski, Editor-in-Chief

Andrzej Lewinski is a Professor of Endocrinology at Medical University of Lodz and is Head of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases in the Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital – Research Institute, Lodz, Poland. He gained his MD and PhD at the Medical University of Lodz. In 2013 Prof. Lewinski obtained the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at the St. Elizabeth University of Health and Social Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. Earlier, he was trained in endocrinology in the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He also served as an officer of the Executive Committee of the European Federation of Endocrine Societies (1994–2001).

His research interests primarily focus on growth processes in the thyroid gland and other endocrine organs, and on issues of optimizing preoperative diagnostics of thyroid cancers with use of FNAB and ultrasound examination. He also conducts genetic studies of some selected oncogenes involved in the thyroid carcinogenesis and of melatonin antioxidant and antitumour activity.

Prof Lewinski has been an author or co-author over 400 original papers.

Prof Bijay Vaidya, Editor-in-Chief

Bijay Vaidya is Consultant Endocrinologist at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, and Honorary Clinical Professor at the University of Exeter Medical School, United Kingdom. He obtained his MBBS degree from the Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga, India and a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

He has clinical and research interest in thyroid diseases, particularly thyroid disorders in pregnancy. He has served as Treasurer and an Executive Committee Member of the British Thyroid Association, and is a member of the Clinical Committeee of the UK Society for Endocrinology and the Thyroid Eye Disease Amsterdam Declaration Implementation Group UK (TEAMeD UK). He has served on the ETA Guidelines Task Forces for ‘Non-autoimmune hyperthyroidism due to TSHR mutations’ and ‘Subclinical hypothyroidism in pregnant women and children’ and the Royal College of Physicians Guidelines Task Force for ‘Management of Thyroid Eye Disease’.

Prof Vaidya has co-authored over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals.