Thyroid status and 6-year mortality in elderly people living in a mildly iodine-deficient area: The aging in the Chianti area study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 868-874

  Ceresini, Graziano ^a   Ceda, Gian Paolo ^a   Lauretani, Fulvio ^a   Maggio, Marcello ^a   Usberti, Elisa ^a   Marina, Michela ^a   Bandinelli, Stefania ^b   Guralnik, Jack M ^c   Valenti, Giorgio ^a   Ferrucci, Luigi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; mortality; subclinical hyperthyroidism

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SUBCLINICAL HYPERTHYROIDISM; SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HUMANS; IODINE; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879183423     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12267     Document Type: Article

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