Alterations in thyroid function tests in aged hospitalized patients: prevalence, aetiology and clinical outcome

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 961-967

  Iglesias, P ^a   Munoz A ^a   Prado, F ^a   Guerrero, M T ^a   Macias M C ^a   Ridruejo, E ^a   Tajada, P ^a   Diez J J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE SEGOVIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUTHYROID SICK SYNDROME; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC CARE; GOITER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 66149135987     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03421.x     Document Type: Article

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