Regulation of the pituitary-thyroid axis in adulthood is not related to birth weight: Evidence from extremely birth weight-discordant monozygotic Danish Twin pairs

Thyroid

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 785-790

  Frost, Morten ^a,b   Petersen, Inge ^a   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^b   Christiansen, Lene ^a   Brix, Thomas ^b   Christensen, Kaare ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDWIFE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SMOKING; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TOBACCO; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84881399542     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2012.0095     Document Type: Article

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