Blood Profiles of Community-Dwelling People with Sarcopenia: Analysis Based on the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.

Introduction: Routine blood factors can be economical and easily accessible candidates for sarcopenia screening and monitoring. The associations between sarcopenia and routine blood factors remain unclear. This study aimed to examine sarcopenia and blood factor associations based on a nation-wide cohort in China.

The effect of radioiodine treatment on the characteristics of TRAb in Graves' disease.

Background: Graves' disease (GD) is one of the most common autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs) in humans, and thyrotropin receptor antibody (TRAb) is a characterized autoantibody in GD. The use of radioactive iodine therapy (RAI) for GD treatment is increasing.

Objectives: We studied the biological properties of TRAb and evaluated the effect of RAI therapy on TRAb in GD patients.