Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and circulating thyroid hormones are not associated with bone turnover markers or incident hip fracture in older men

Siru, Ranita, Alfonso, Helman, Chubb, S.A. Paul, Golledge, Jonathan, Flicker, Leon, and Yeap, Bu B. (2018) Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and circulating thyroid hormones are not associated with bone turnover markers or incident hip fracture in older men. Clinical Endocrinology, 89 (1). pp. 93-99.

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Abstract

Objective: Overt thyroid dysfunction is a risk factor for osteoporosis and fractures. Subclinical hyperthyroidism has also been associated with fracture. It remains unclear whether variation in thyroid hormones within the euthyroid range modulates bone health, particularly among older men. We assessed whether thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and free thyroxine (FT4) are associated with bone turnover markers (BTMs) and predict hip fracture risk in community-dwelling older men without known thyroid disease.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Patients: Four thousand two hundred forty-eight men aged 70-89 years.

Measurements: Baseline blood samples were assayed for TSH, FT4, total osteocalcin (TOC), undercarboxylated osteocalcin (ucOC), N-terminal propeptide of type I collagen (P1NP) and collagen type I C-terminal cross-linked telopeptide (CTX). Incidence of hip fracture events was ascertained to 2012. Associations of TSH and FT4 with BTMs were analysed at baseline using Pearson correlation coefficients, and with incident hip fracture using Cox proportional hazards regression.

Results: After excluding men with pre-existing thyroid or bone disease, there were 3, 338 men for analysis. Of these, 3, 117 were euthyroid, 135 had subclinical hypothyroidism, and 86 had subclinical hyperthyroidism. Men with subclinical thyroid disease were older, and those with subclinical hyperthyroidism had lower creatinine than the other groups. After multivariate analysis, there were no associations found between FT4, TSH or subclinical thyroid dysfunction and BTMs at baseline. Neither subclinical thyroid dysfunction, TSH nor FT4 were predictive of incident hip fracture in our study population.

Conclusions: In euthyroid older men, TSH and FT4 were not associated with BTMs or incident hip fracture. Our findings differ from those previously described in postmenopausal women.

Item ID: 54413
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1365-2265
Keywords: hip fractures, male, risk factors, thyrotropin, thyroxine
Funders: National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHF), National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC)
Projects and Grants: NHF Grant-in-Aid G11P 5662, NHMRC grant 279408, NHMRC grant 379600, NHMRC grant 403963, NHMRC grant 513823, NHMRC grant 634492, NHMRC grant 1045710, NHMRC grant 1060557, NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship 1117061
Date Deposited: 04 Jul 2018 07:32
FoR Codes: 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology > 320199 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes: 92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920103 Cardiovascular System and Diseases @ 100%
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