Endocrine Abstracts

To date, all major guidelines designate LT4 as the standard. Are symptoms a reliable indicator of the presence of hypothyroidism? Fatigue in primary care, predicts a lifetime diagnosis of depression or anxiety more frequently than other outcomes. Tiredness has been examined in 26 meta-analyses. Only 4.3% of tired subjects have identifiable somatic disease (includes anemia, diabetes and hypothyroidism). In studies with control groups, the prevalence of somatic diseases was iden...