The prevalence of elevated serum thyroid-stimulating hormone in childhood/adolescent obesity and of autoimmune thyroid diseases in a subgroup

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 773-776

  Bhowmick, Samar K ^a   Dasari, Gayathri ^b   Levens, Kara L ^c   Rettig, Kenneth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Disease   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Children adolescents; Obesity; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; THYROTROPIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447521998     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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