Accurately diagnosing thyroid function is critical to avoid harms of unnecessary treatment. This study found that age-, sex-, and race-specific reference intervals reclassified nearly half of patients ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reference ranges for thyroid function among adolescents differ substantially from those for adults, according to ...
Whether clinicians are accurately diagnosing thyroid disease was at issue for Chinese researchers who demonstrated that adding subgroup differences according to age, sex, or race when testing for ...
Introduction: Thyroid dysfunction and thyroid autoimmunity during pregnancy are linked to an increased risks of adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. Guidelines recommend population-specific thyroid ...
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located in the front of the neck just above the trachea. It weighs approximately 15 to 20 grams in the adult human. The thyroid produces and releases into the ...
Seasonal variation in one of the hormones used to monitor thyroid function could in turn lead to false diagnoses of subclinical hypothyroidism and unnecessary prescriptions of levothyroxine, says Yale ...
Thyroid test reports can be confusing, especially when the numbers do not clearly say normal or abnormal and instead fall into a grey area, which is often labelled as borderline. Many people assume it ...