Determinants of serum T4 and T3 at the time of diagnosis in nosological types of thyrotoxicosis: A Population-based study

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 169, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 537-545

  Carlé, Allan ^a   Knudsen, Nils ^b   Pedersen, Inge Bülow ^a   Perrild, Hans ^b   Ovesen, Lars ^c   Rasmussen, Lone Banke ^d   Laurberg, Peter ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c SLAGELSE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROXINE; AUTOANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANISH; DENMARK; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IODINE DEFICIENCY; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SMOKING; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TOXIC GOITER; ADENOMA; AGING; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NODULAR GOITER; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; THYROID TUMOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; GOITER, NODULAR; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84885159943     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-13-0533     Document Type: Article

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