Lean body mass as a determinant of thyroid size

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 701-706

  Wesche, Maria F T ^a   Wiersinga, Wilmar M ^a   Smits, Nico J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SURFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID GLAND; THYROID WEIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SURFACE AREA; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 0031837650     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00400.x     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Berghout, A., Wiersinga, W.M., Smits, N.J. & Touber, J.L. (1987) Determinants of thyroid volume as measured by ultrasonography in healthy adults in a non-iodine deficient area. Clinial Endocrinology, 26, 273-280.
2. Berghout, A., Endert, E., Ross, A., Hogerzeil, H.V., Smits, N.J. & Wiersinga, W.M. (1994) Thyroid function and thyroid size in normal pregnant women living in an iodine replete area. Clinical Endocrinology, 41, 375-379.
3. Bierman, E.L. & Hirsch, J. (1981) Obesity. In: Textbook of Endocrinology (ed. R. H. Williams), p. 910. Saunders, Philadelphia.
4. Boyd, E. (1962) Organ weights from birth to maturity: man, North American. In: Biological Handbooks, Growth, Including Reproduction and Morphological Development (eds. P. L. Altman & D. S. Dittmer), pp. 346-347. Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology, Bethesda, MD.
5. Burrow, G.N., Fischer, D.A., Larsen, P.R. (1994) Maternal and fetal thyroid function. New England Journal of Medicine, 331, 1072-1078.
6. Cunningham, J.J. & Barzel, U.S. (1984) Lean body mass is a predictor of the daily requirement of thyroid hormone in older men and women. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 32, 204-207.
7. Delange, F., Benker, G., Caron, Ph., Eber, O., Ott, W., Peter, F., Podoba, J., Simescu, M., Szybinsky, Z., Vertongen, F., Vitti, P., Wiersinga, W. & Zamrazil, V. (1997) Thyroid volume and urinary iodine in European schoolchildren: standardization of values for assessment of iodine deficiency. European Journal of Endocrinology, 136, 180-187.
8. DuBois, D. & DuBois, E. (1916) A formula to estimate the approximate surface area of height and weight be known. Archives of Internal Medicine, 17, 863-871.
9. Glinoer, D., DeNayer, P., Bourdoux, P., Lemone, M., Robyn, C., Van Steirteghem, A., Kinthaert, J. & Lejeune, B. (1990) Regulation of maternal function during pregnancy. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 71, 276-287.
10. Hartman, P., Ramseier, A., Gudat, F., Mihatsch, M.J. & Polasek, W. (1994) Normal weight of the brain in adults in relation to age, sex, body height and weight. Pathologe, 15(3), 165-170.
11. Hegedüs, L., Perrild, H., Poulsen, L.R., Anderson, J.R., Holm, B., Schnohr, P., Jensen, G., Hansen, J.M. (1983) The determination of thyroid volume by ultrasound and its relationship to body weight, age and sex in normal subjects. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 56, 260-263.
12. Lukaski, H.C., Johnson, P.E., Bolonchuk, W.W., Lykken, G.I. (1985) Assessment of fat-free mass using bioelectrical impedance measurements of the human body. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 41, 363-370.
13. Lukaski, H.C., Bolonchuk, W.W., Hall, C.B., Siders, W.A. (1986) Validation of tetrapolar bioelectrical impedance method to assess human body composition. Journal of Applied Physiology, 60(4), 1327-1332.
14. Olesen, K.H. (1965) Body composition in normal adults. In: Symposia of the Society for the Study of Human Biology, Volume VII, Human Body Composition, pp. 177-190. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
15. Segal, K.R., Van Loan, M., Fitzgerald, P.I., Hodgdon, J.A., Van Itallie, T.B. (1988) Lean body mass estimation by bioelectrical impedance analysis: a four-site cross-validation study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 47, 7-14.