Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in the elderly women of Tabriz city, the largest city in North West Iran.Design: Cross-sectional study.Setting and participants: By using the records of the local household registry, a sample of 1150 subjects was drawn by simple random sampling. After the exclusion of nonresponse subjects, 1000 subjects aged between 60 and 89 years (mean 64.5&#...