Endocrine Abstracts

Disturbances of thyroid hormones produce clinical symptoms but hormonal level at which this happens vary from patient to patient. In order to determine how much hormonal change patients can tolerate before developing symptoms we retrospectively collected data of 86 hyperthyroid and 48 hypothyroid patients, 120 females and 14 males aged 28–85 and 23–74 yrs respectively. We included only patients who at some time during treatment had abnormal values of TSH and/or thyro...