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November 2006

• Small abnormalities in thyroid function are not associated with anxiety, depression, or cognitive dysfunction
  
  
• Mild hypertension is a feature of subclinical hyperthyroidism but not subclinical hypothyroidism
  

July 2006

• Patients treated for hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism have an increase in frequency of some cardiovascular disorders
  
  
• Subclinical hypothyroidism and subclinical hyperthyroidism have few deleterious cardiovascular effects

March 2006

• Subclinical hypothyroidism is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease
  
  
• The risk of congestive heart failure but not other cardiovascular diseases is increased in subclinical hypothyroidism
  
  
• Men with hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism often have sexual dysfunction

November 2005

• Unselected healthy subjects and healthy subjects with no risk factors for thyroid disorders have similar serum thyrotropin concentrations

July 2005

• Women with hypothyroidism have fewer chronic musculoskeletal symptoms than other women
  
  
• Kidney function is altered in hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism

March 2005

• Smokers have less thyroid autoimmunity and lower serum thyrotropin concentrations than nonsmokers
  
  
• Hypothyroidism is not associated with decreased performance of daily activities or increased mortality in old age

November 2004

• The number of new cases of thyroid dysfunction was steady in a community in Scotland during the 1990s

July 2004

• Quality of life is reduced in patients with thyroid dysfunction and goiter

March 2004

• Patients with subclinical thyroid disease have few clinical abnormalities and treatment has no proven benefit

November 2003

• Musculoskeletal disorders are uncommon in patients with thyroid dysfunction

March 2003

• Breast cancer is not increased in women with most thyroid disorders

• Low frequency of thyroid dysfunction in infertile women

July 2002

• Unrecognized thyroid dysfunction is common in the general population

• Month-to-month variations in serum thyrotropin and thyroxine concentrations in normal subjects

Thyroid Function in Obesity

July 2005

• Serum thyrotropin is correlated with body mass in obese women with normal thyroid function
  

Archive of Thyroid Research

• Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
• Congenital Hypothyroidism
• Drug Effects on Thyroid Function
• Graves' Disease
• Graves’ Ophthalmopathy
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hypothyroidism
• Iodine Deficiency
• Nodular Goiter
• Nonthyroidal Illness
• Postpartum Thyroid Disease
• Thyroid Cancer
• Thyroid Development
• Thyroid Diagnosis
• Thyroid Disease
• Thyroid Function in Pregnancy
• Hormone Action
• Hormone Secretion
• Hormone Therapy
• Thyroid Surgery
• Thyroiditis