How should we manage patients with mildly increased serum thyrotrophin concentrations?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 436-440

  Vanderpump, Mark P J ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISEASE COURSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 77749301376     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03720.x     Document Type: Note

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