Natural history, diagnosis and management of subclinical thyroid dysfunction

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-446

  Biondi, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

anti thyroid drugs; bone; cardiovascular risk; elderly; heart; L thyroxine; osteoporosis; prevalence; progression; radioiodine; replacement therapy; subclinical hyperthyroidism (exogenous and endogenous); subclinical hypothyroidism; subclinical thyroid dysfunction; symptoms; thyroid autonomy; thyroid cancer; thyrotropin; thyrotropin suppression

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; FERTILITY; FRACTURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SUBCLINICAL HYPERTHYROIDISM; SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84864760738     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2011.12.004     Document Type: Review

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