Utility of routine thyroid-stimulating hormone determination in new-onset atrial fibrillation in the ED

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1158-1162

  Buccelletti, Francesco ^a   Carroccia, Annarita ^a   Marsiliani, Davide ^a   Gilardi, Emanuele ^a   Silveri, Nicolò Gentiloni ^a   Franceschi, Francesco ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 80855164633     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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