Five-year change in morphological and functional alterations of the thyroid gland: The study of health in pomerania

Thyroid

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 737-746

  Völzke, Henry ^a   Ittermann, Till ^a   Albers, Martin ^a   Friedrich, Nele ^a   Nauck, Matthias ^a   Below, Harald ^a   Kramer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; IODINE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; GOITER; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; COHORT STUDIES; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; FEMALE; GERMANY; GOITER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IODINE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 84863487959     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2011.0525     Document Type: Article

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