Endocrine Abstracts

Currently there are only rare data on the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in hospitalized patients. Therefore, we prospectively measured TSH values in patients admitted to a clinic of general internal medicine in an area of moderate iodine deficiency.In 1011 patients (mean age 66.2 years; median 72 years) TSH was consecutively evaluated.The mean TSH was 1.74 μU/ml (range 0.00–93.3); median 1.1 μU/ml.<p class="a...