Increase in incidence of medically treated thyroid disease in children with down syndrome after rerelease of american cademy of pediatrics health supervision guidelines

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Carroll, Kecia N ^a,d   Arbogast, Patrickg ^b,c   Dudley, Judith A ^c   Cooper, William O ^a  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

^b Department of Biostatistics ^*  (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Guidelines; Thyroid disorders

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; THYROID DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUP; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICAID; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAID; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TENNESSEE; THYROID DISEASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49849085045     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-3252     Document Type: Article

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