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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches
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To: LindyBill who wrote (1014)8/26/2008 11:25:28 AM
From: jrhana  Read Replies (1) of 39288
 
In a generally excellent article, I came across one glaring error:

<Would you have your thyroid gland removed for heart disease? (Shockingly, that was a popular treatment 40 years ago for angina left you woefully ill and dead within a few years.)>

IMO Dr. Davis does have this one annoying habit of throwing out inappropriate accusations based on inaccurate assumptions.

Now thyroid does have stimulating effects on the heart and can exacerbate angina. In fact one has to be very careful with the dose of synthroid in someone with coronary disease.

But thyroidectomy to treat coronary disease? I had never heard of that, and I know for a fact that it was completely unheard of by the 1970s and forty years ago is 1968.

So I did a search. It was a treatment proposed in 1934 and was used with about 80% success rate as a method to control angina. Recall that there was really very little understanding of coronary disease in those days and that the available means to treat it were quite limited.

However within 10 years (1944) the procedure fell into (justified) disrepute and disuse for coronary disease.

In addition, I am sure that the doctors in that long ago era, would have know enough to put thryodectomy patients on thyroid replacement so the <left you woefully ill and dead within a few years> is way overly dramatic and exaggerated.

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But an interesting piece of ancient medical history.
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