Giving thyroid hormones to clinically hypothyroid but biochemically euthyroid patients

BMJ

Volumn 315, Issue 7111, 1997, Pages 813-814

  Beckett, G J ^a   Toft, A D ^a   Williams, Gareth ^b   Shepherd, Charles ^c  

^a NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^c ME Association   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

GOITER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; WELLBEING;

HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 0030930546     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7111.813     Document Type: Letter

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