Detection of people at risk of diabetes in community pharmacies of Pontevedra (Spain) (DEDIPO).

Objective: The aim of this study was to detect people at risk of suffering diabetes or changes in carbohydrate metabolism and to refer them for possible diagnosis to health care centres. The number of diagnoses and costs for the pharmacy were recorded.

Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study was conducted in community pharmacies in Pontevedra in September-October of 2014.

Needle washing increases the diagnostic yield of fine needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid gland.

Background And Objective: Nodular thyroid disease is a common condition in our clinical practice, and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is the diagnostic procedure of choice. Its main limitation is the number of non-diagnostic samples. Since the Bethesda criteria were implemented in 2007 (a consensus document on the morphologic criteria and diagnostic terminology for interpretation of thyroid cytological samples), a higher prevalence of non-diagnostic FNAB was shown.

Treatment with fixed thyroxine doses in pregnant women with subclinical hypothyroidism.

Background: Hypothyroidism is usually treated with thyroxine doses on patient weight. In some cases, however, fixed doses have proved to useful to normalize TSH levels, which is especially important during pregnancy.

Patients And Methods: Sixty-eight women diagnosed with subclinical hypothyroidism, autoimmune or not, during pregnancy were given a fixed dose of thyroxine 50 mcg/day.