ea0011p910 | Thyroid | ECE2006
Viswanath AK
, Avenell A
, Philip S
, Acharya S
, MacLennan G
, Dalziel K
, Copland SA
, Bevan JS
, Abraham P
Background and methodology: There are few data on changes in thyroxine requirement in the long-term follow-up of hypothyroid patients. We carried out a retrospective analysis to evaluate the long-term changes in thyroxine dose and its relationship with age, gender, thyroxine dose at registration and aetiology of hypothyroidism.Results: We identified 5,029 patients from our hospital based thyroid register with a minimum of 4 years follow-up (88% female, 7...