TY - JOUR ID - TI - Effectiveness of Zinc Supplementation in Regulating Serum Hormonal and Inflammatory Status in Hypothyroidism Patients AU - Manal A. Aziz AU - Neama Yahya Habil AU - Abdul Kareem S. Diab PY - 2016 VL - 13 IS - 2 SP - 347 EP - 353 JO - Medical Journal of Babylon مجلة بابل الطبية SN - 1812156X 23126760 AB - This study was designed to investigate the serum level of thyroid-stimulating hormone,thyroxine, triiodothyronine, interleukin-6 and tumour necrosis factor-α” in hypothyroidism patients, and to reveal their relationship with serum zinc level in 27 patients with hypothyroidism, and 27 control group. The results disclosed that serum zinc, interleukin-6 and tumour necrosis factor-α levelsin hypothyroidism patients are significantly lower (p˂0.05) than the control group. While serum thyroid stimulating hormone level, was significantly higher in hypothyroidism patients than the control (p˂0.05). After zinc administration, the patients group showeda significant increase in “interleukin-6 and tumour necrosis factor-α” level (p˂0.05) in comparison with control group."

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