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Thyroid hormone independent associations between serum TSH levels and indicators of bone turnover in cured patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
European journal of endocrinology - 1 Jul 2008
Heemstra Karen A, van der Deure Wendy M, Peeters Robin P, Hamdy Neveen A, Stokkel Marcel P, Corssmit Eleonora P, Romijn Johannes A, Visser Theo J, Smit Johannes W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: It has been proposed that TSH has thyroid hormone-independent effects on bone mineral density (BMD) and bone metabolism. This concept is still controversial and has not been studied in human subjects in detail. We addressed this question by studying relationships between serum TSH conc...
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