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Heart Disease News 2016: Thyroid Problems Linked to Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

New Study finds link between High Thyroid Hormones and Cardiac Death

Cardiac arrest is a widely known cause of death worldwide. Almost any disease that causes too much strain to the heart may lead to a sudden cardiac death. Death occurs when the human heart stops beating due to a malfunction in the heart's system. This malfunction may cause the heartbeat to go faster.

A recent study from Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdom shows that people with a higher thyroid level are prone to sudden cardiac abnormality that may lead to death. Researchers of the study revealed that the arrest may also happen even if the thyroid level of the patient isn't too high.

Lead Researcher Doctor Layal Chaker told UPI that the study allowed the link between thyroid hormone levels and the sudden death of a person caused by cardiac arrest to be recognizable.

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Patients with high levels of thyroid hormone are 2.5 times more vulnerable to sudden cardiac death compared to those who score lower to average thyroid hormone level.

Study Finds Three Factors Affecting Cardiac Death

Based on a ten-year observation, people who died due to cardiac arrest are counted according to their thyroid hormone level. Those with increased thyroid hormone levels score four times higher than those with low to average hormone levels.

Researchers were able to do this by doing a long-term study and by taking blood samples from 10,000 participants under the middle-age and senior adult groups in Netherlands. Aside from monitoring their thyroid levels, they also recorded their cholesterol count and blood pressure level.

The study showed that either cholesterol, blood pressure or thyroid levels push cardiac arrest incidents. By looking into the relationship of the three factors, they found out that the connection between the three is also parallel.  

American Heart Association Cardiologist Doctor Vincent Bufalino admits that no one has ever made this association in the past.

Further Studies

Bufalino notes that the study of thyroid glands having an immediate effect to hasten metabolism has been known for years. However, the fact that it can affect the heart to speed up, causing extremely high to toxic effects to the patient, has just been recognized. He also mentioned that the result of this recent study opens new discussions on thyroid hormone levels and other factors that may lead to cardiac arrest.

However, Bufalino adds that the study needs to be explored even more before prescriptions and advices are made so as not to scare patients with high records of thyroid hormone and prepare them with the potential effects in the future.

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