Influence of female sex hormones on thyroid parameters determined in a thyroid screening

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 53, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 547-553

  Grüning, Thomas ^a,b   Zöphel, Klaus ^a   Wunderlich, Gerd ^a   Franke, Wolf Gunter ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fT3; fT4; Hormone replacement treatment; HRT; OHC; Oral hormonal contraceptives; T3; T4; Thyroid stimulating hormone; Thyroxine; Triiodothyronine; TSH

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; LIOTHYRONINE; SEX HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 38649135926     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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