Editorial: Upper limit of normal serum thyroid-stimulating hormone: A moving and now an aging target?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4560-4562

  Fatourechi, Vahab ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID HORMONE RESISTANCE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; REFERENCE VALUE;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 36849062173     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2007-2285     Document Type: Editorial

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