Thyroid function in the nutritionally obese child and adolescent

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 415-420

  Reinehr, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

energy expenditure; leptin; obesity; thyroid hormones; ultrasound; weight loss

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LIOTHYRONINE; PROTIRELIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENT DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROXINEMIA; OBESITY; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 79960842791     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e328344c393     Document Type: Review

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