Abstract
Context
Tasmania is an island State of the Australian Commonwealth with a well-documented history of mild iodine deficiency. Between 2001 and 2009 Tasmania experienced two incremental phases of iodine fortification.
Objective
To examine trends for thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroid peroxidase antibody (ATPO) testing and their relationship to different phases of iodine nutrition in the Tasmanian population between 1995 and 2013.
Design
Retrospective longitudinal study.
Setting and participants
The major primary care and largest public hospital pathology providers in Tasmania submitted data for all TSH and ATPO tests performed between 1995 and 2013. Data linkage methodology was used to determine trends for TSH and ATPO testing.
Results
A total of 1.66 million TSH assessments, involving 389,910 individual patients, were performed in Tasmania between 1995-2013. There was approximately a four-fold increase in the overall rate of TSH testing during this period with the rate of incident TSH assessment remaining relatively stable over the study period. The incidence of overt suppression and elevation of TSH (TSH ≤0.1mIU/L and ≥10mIU/L) declined 62.3% and 59.7% respectively, with a trend for increased incidence of borderline TSH elevation ≥4.0mIU/L. The incidence of thyroid autoimmunity as determined by the proportion of abnormal ATPO results remained stable, with the absolute number of positive test results increasing during the study period.
Conclusion
Iodine supplementation of this mildly iodine deficient population was not associated with an obvious increase in incidence of overt thyroid dysfunction or autoimmunity. Whilst the volume of TSH testing increased over the study period, the increase was driven by patients undergoing follow-up TSH assessments.
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