Monitoring the prevalence of thyroid disorders in the adult population of Northeast Germany

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Khattak, Rehman Mehmood ^a,b   Ittermann, Till ^a   Nauck, Matthias ^a   Below, Harald ^a   Völzke, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b ISLAMIA COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Monitoring; Prevalence trend; Thyroid disorders

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CREATININE; THYROTROPIN; AUTOANTIGEN; IODIDE; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IODINE; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; TPO PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BIOMARKER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ELDERLY POPULATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH MONITORING; IODINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; GERMANY; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID NODULE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; URINARY EXCRETION; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLOOD; DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROID GLAND; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

GERMANY; POMERANIA;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IODIDES; IODINE; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84996921164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0111-3     Document Type: Article

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