Evaluation of Thyroid Nodule Malignant Neoplasms and Obesity Among Children and Young Adults
Menée aux Etats-Unis auprès de 116 patients pédiatriques ayant subi une intervention chirurgicale pour un nodule thyroïdien entre 2003 et 2019 (âge médian : 16,1 ans ; 93 % de filles), cette étude analyse l'association entre l'obésité (score lié à l'indice de masse corporelle) et le risque de développer des tumeurs malignes des nodules thyroïdiens chez les jeunes de moins de 21 ans
While the prevalence of thyroid nodules in children, adolescents, and young adults in the United States has remained stable since the middle of the 20th century, the incidence of malignant nodules has been increasing among younger patients of all sexes, races, and ethnic groups. This trend cannot solely be explained by increased surveillance or improved detection because the diagnoses of small, early-stage and larger, late-stage thyroid cancers have both increased.1 Given that the rate of obesity in younger people in the United States has been increasing during this same period, we hypothesized that obesity may be associated with pediatric thyroid malignant neoplasms.