Menelaos L. Batrinos
Over the past two decades a plethora of publications and clinical practice data have established that subclinical thyroid dysfunction is a common condition occurring much more frequently than the overt expression of thyroid disease. Subclinical hypothyroidism is considered to be the most common of these entities…
Zhanna E. Belaya, Galina A. Melnichenko, Ljudmila Y. Rozhinskaya, Valentin V. Fadeev, Tatjana M. Alekseeva, Olga K. Dorofeeva, Natalja I. Sasonova, Galina S. Kolesnikova
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of subclinical hyperthyroidism of variable etiology on bone mineral density (BMD) and bone metabolism in postmenopausal women. DESIGN: T he study included data of 88 postmenopausal women classified into four groups depending on the etiology of subclinical hyperthyroidism: (1) 20 with toxic multinodular goiter without history of clinical hyperthyroidism …