Endocrine Abstracts

The suppression of serum TSH is a marker for increased risk of vascular mortality or death due to other causes are unknown. Nevertheless, patients who was operated on account of differentiated carcinoma of thyroid, had to take high doses of thyroxine for a long time to achieve suppression of TSH<0.1 mU/l. Heart rate variability (HRV), a method of mathematical analysis of heart rhythm (computer analysis of 24 h Holter monitoring), was used to assess function of the autonomi...