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Study protocol; Thyroid hormone Replacement for Untreated older adults with Subclinical hypothyroidism - a randomised placebo controlled Trial (TRUST)

BACKGROUND: Subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) is a common condition in elderly people, defined as elevated serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) with normal circulating free thyroxine (fT4). Evidence is lacking about the effect of thyroid hormone treatment. We describe the protocol of a large rando...

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Autores principales: Stott, David J., Gussekloo, Jacobijn, Kearney, Patricia M., Rodondi, Nicolas, Westendorp, Rudi G. J., Mooijaart, Simon, Kean, Sharon, Quinn, Terence J., Sattar, Naveed, Hendry, Kirsty, Du Puy, Robert, Den Elzen, Wendy P. J., Poortvliet, Rosalinde K. E., Smit, Jan W. A., Jukema, J. Wouter, Dekkers, Olaf M., Blum, Manuel, Collet, Tinh-Hai, McCarthy, Vera, Hurley, Caroline, Byrne, Stephen, Browne, John, Watt, Torquil, Bauer, Douglas, Ford, Ian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28158982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-017-0156-8