Response: High Thyroid-stimulating Hormone Levels Increase Proinflammatory and Cardiovascular Markers in Patients with Extreme Obesity

We agree that it is not possible to assume an association between TSH levels and inflammatory and cardiovascular markers in serum only by performing a correlation test. We did not infer that association in our paper (1), further studies are necessary to probe it. We suggest a contribution of TSH levels on the inflammatory and cardiovascular markers: IL-6, leptin, ICAM-1 and E- selectin using a correlation test, as was previously published by some other authors (2,3). However, we did not evaluate how much serum levels of inflammatory and cardiovascular markers are likely to change for a unit of TSH.
Source: Archives of Medical Research - Category: Research Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research