Vitamin D and Selenium in a Thyroid Eye Disease Population in Texas

Ama Sadaka; Kimberly Nguyen; Amina Malik; Rosbel Brito; Shauna Berry; Andrew G Lee

doi:10.1080/01658107.2019.1566382

Vitamin D and Selenium in a Thyroid Eye Disease Population in Texas

Neuroophthalmology. 2019 Jan 25;43(5):291-294. doi: 10.1080/01658107.2019.1566382. eCollection 2019 Nov.

Authors

Ama Sadaka¹, Kimberly Nguyen², Amina Malik¹, Rosbel Brito¹, Shauna Berry¹, Andrew G Lee^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
² Houston Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
³ Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas A & M College of Medicine and the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Galveston, Texas, USA.
⁵ Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁶ Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Abstract

There is growing evidence of thyroid eye disease association with nutritional deficiencies including selenium and vitamin D. We conducted a retrospective chart review of all patients with clinical diagnosis of TED seen at our clinic from 2016 to 2017. Thirty-five patients met inclusion criteria and had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels available, and 19 had selenium levels available. 7/35 (20%) patients had vitamin D deficiency, and 11 (31%) had vitamin D insufficiency, but none had selenium deficiency. Although both selenium and vitamin D supplementation have been recommended for TED, further investigation is necessary to justify supplementation for patients with TED.

Keywords: Thyroid eye disease; selenium deficiency; vitamin D deficiency.

Grants and funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.