Determinants of thyroid volume in healthy French adults participating in the SU.VI.MAX cohort

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 273-278

  Barrère, Xavier ^a   Valeix, Pierre ^a   Preziosi, Paul ^a   Bensimon, Michel ^a   Pelletier, Bruno ^b   Galan, Pilar ^a   Hercberg, Serge ^a  

^a Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

^b LIPHA Santé   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; THIOCYANATE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRANCE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; IODINE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; THIOCYANATES; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 0034122468     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2000.00939.x     Document Type: Article

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