{"id":118871,"date":"2013-05-24T13:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=118871"},"modified":"2013-05-24T13:43:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T16:43:47","slug":"laser-combats-thyroiditis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/laser-combats-thyroiditis\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser combats thyroiditis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-118872\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/012-013_Tecnociencia_206-1.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"238\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Daniel Bueno<\/span>The use of low-level lasers has shown promising results against hypothyroidism caused by chronic autoimmune thyroiditis, a disease in which the immune system attacks the thyroid, the gland that produces the hormones that control the body\u2019s metabolism.\u00a0 In a study led by Maria Cristina Chammas and Giovanni Guido Cerri from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), the physician Danilo H\u00f6fling assigned 23 patients with this form of thyroiditis to a series of 10 laser sessions to treat the thyroid.\u00a0 Another 20 individuals were administered a placebo treatment involving light that offers no therapeutic benefit.\u00a0 After nine months, those who received actual treatment required only half the dose of the synthetic hormone they had been taking before the study.\u00a0 Those who underwent the placebo treatment needed larger doses (<i>Lasers in Medical Science<\/i>, 2012).\u00a0 The laser seems to have reduced the production of antibodies against thyroid.\u00a0 For H\u00f6fling, these results suggest an improvement in the gland\u2019s function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laser combats thyroiditis ","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[247],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-118871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118871"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=118871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}