Approximately a third of older patients treated with thyroid hormones report the concurrent use of medications that can interfere with the accuracy of thyroid function tests, potentially compromising ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers created thyroid function reference ranges adjusted for age, sex and racial-ethnic background. Using ...

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 ...

Thyroid disorders, common endocrine conditions, often require long-term management. Shivkumar Aggarwal, seeking lasting relief from intermittent symptoms, joined a seven-day holistic program at ...

Adjusting the reference intervals of thyroid function diagnostic tests -- for age, sex, and race -- reclassified many people into different disease categories when compared with current reference ...