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- Title
Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and the heart.
- Authors
Auer, Johann; Berent, Robert; Eber, Bernd; Sawka, A. M.; Fatourechi, V.; Biondi, Bernadette; Palmieri, Erniliano A.; Lombardi, Gaetano; Fazio, Serafino
- Abstract
Presents a letters to the editor which focuses on effects of subclinical thyroid dysfunction on the heart. Rate of atrial fibrillation in patients with subclinical hyperthyroidism; Finding that appropriate thyroid hormone replacement therapy prevented progression of angiographic coronary artery disease; Assertion that subclinical hypothyroidism is a mild type of tissue hypothyroidism.
- Subjects
HYPERTHYROIDISM; THYROID diseases; DISEASE risk factors; ATRIAL fibrillation; LETTERS to the editor; AGE distribution; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003, Vol 139, Issue 10, p865
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
commentary
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-139-10-200311180-00021