Thyroid hyperactivity with high thyroglobulin in serum despite sufficient iodine intake in chronic cold adaptation in an arctic inuit hunter population

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 433-440

  Andersen, Stig ^a,b   Kleinschmidt, Kent ^b   Hvingel, Bodil ^b   Laurberg, Peter ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Queen Ingrids Hospital   (Greenland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE; IODINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD CLIMATE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GREENLAND; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FUNCTION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; COLD TEMPERATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INUITS; IODINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; THYROGLOBULIN;

EID: 84857943927     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-11-0888     Document Type: Article

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