Join us for our Abstract Highlights – AACE 2011 Conference – Type 2 Diabetics and Routine Thyroid Screening.

Participants in the 2011 AACE annual meeting considered the question, “Should type 2 diabetics be routinely screened for thyroid disease” in reviewing the results of a study of hypothyroidism in diabetes.

Researchers noted that both primary hypothyroidism and type 2 diabetes are independent risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Given these facts, and the strong association that they found between type 2 diabetes and hypothyroidism, they concluded that “a thyroid profile should be a diagnostic test in all patients with type 2 diabetes; similar to what occurs in type 1 diabetes mellitus.”