Prediction of progression to overt hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism in female relatives of patients with autoimmune thyroid disease using the thyroid events Amsterdam (THEA) score

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1657-1663

  Strieder, Thea G A ^a   Tijssen, Jan G P ^a   Wenzel, Björn E ^b   Endert, Erik ^a   Wiersinga, Wilmar M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; IODINE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LOGISTIC MODELS; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 49449112266     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.168.15.1657     Document Type: Article

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