Endocrine Abstracts

In large community surveys, there is a consistent absolute excess of psychological caseness in subjects on thyroxine (T4) compared to age and sex matched controls of around 6%. Part of this likely to be ‘confounding by indication’ – i.e. that some individuals failed to respond to T4 as hypothyroidism was not the cause of their psychological morbidity in the first place. However, the observations that normalisation of intracellular thyroid h...

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