All participants aged more than 18 years were from the stratified sample survey on thyroid diseases and type 2 diabetes in Shenyang city in 2007. In 2012, one community containing 623 subjects with ...

To investigate whether there is an association between serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) within the normal range and body mass index (BMI). In this respect, the relation between thyroid function ...

About 15 percent of the 10-12 million people in the U.S. with hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid, continue to feel sick despite following the standard of care recommended by the American ...

Normal TSH values vary widely depending on age, and the ranges of normal values are typically higher in older adults. This is important, as a select number of patients manifest recurrent symptoms ...

COPENHAGEN — The risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) varies with thyroid function and is significantly increased even in subclinical hyperthyroidism--that is, even when low thyroid-stimulating ...

A randomized crossover trial evaluated the efficacy of different l-thyroxine dosing strategies and different target thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) ranges in patients with treated hypothyroidism.

Earlier this fall, Medscape Medical News spoke to endocrinologists Angela M. Leung, MD, and Karen Tsai, MD, on how to interpret abnormal results of thyroid hormone tests. To address some additional ...

New research suggests that a slightly underactive thyroid may affect a women's ability to become pregnant -- even when the gland is functioning at the low end of the normal range. New research ...

Levels of thyroid function considered "normal" were still associated with increased mortality, according to a study suggesting that cardiovascular disease (CVD) plays an important role. People ...

Babies born with moderately high concentrations of thyroid stimulating hormone have a higher risk of poor educational and development outcomes at school age, a world-first study reveals. Babies born ...