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Levothyroxine Replacement Therapy and Overuse: A Timely Diagnostic Approach

Authors :
Christina Bothou
Ioannis I. Androulakis
Sarantis Livadas
Nicholas Angelopoulos
Anastasios Boniakos
Leonidas H. Duntas
Source :
Thyroid. 28:1580-1586
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2018.

Abstract

Background: Levothyroxine (LT4) is one of the most prescribed drugs worldwide. Once started, approximately 90% of patients continue treatment long term. However, accumulating evidence suggests that...

Subjects

Subjects :
endocrine system
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Levothyroxine
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Thyroid ultrasound
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Endocrinology
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Intensive care medicine
Prescribed drugs
business
medicine.drug

Details

ISSN :
15579077 and 10507256
Volume :
28
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Thyroid
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........fc856833172ff049ed34aa98678d1a24

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