Thyroid function tests and mortality in aged hospitalized patients: A 7-Year prospective observational study

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4683-4690

  Iglesias, Pedro ^a   Ridruejo, Elena ^b   Muñzoz, Angélica ^b   Prado, Florentino ^b   Macías, María Cruz ^b   Guerrero, María Teresa ^b   Tajada, Pilar ^c   García Arévalo, Carmen ^c   Díez, Juan José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b Departments of Geriatrics   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL DE SEGOVIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPAIN; SURVIVAL TIME; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MORTALITY; SPAIN; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84889804629     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-3849     Document Type: Review

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