Diagnosing and Managing Thyroid Disease in the Nursing Home

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-17

  Dominguez, Ligia J ^a   Bevilacqua, Maurizio ^b   DiBella, Giovanna ^a   Barbagallo, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

nonthyroidal illness; nursing home; subclinical thyroid disease; Thyroid disease; thyroid nodule

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANDROGEN; ANTITHYROID AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; CARBAMAZEPINE; COLESTYRAMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IODINE; LEVODOPA; LEVOTHYROXINE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; LITHIUM; METOPROLOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGING; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANXIETY; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EUTHYROID SICK SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NODULAR GOITER; NURSING HOME; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; POLYPHARMACY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID NODULE; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 37549008677     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2007.07.011     Document Type: Review

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