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Thyroid-stimulating hormone and free thyroxine levels in persons with HFE C282Y homozygosity, a common hemochromatosis genotype: the HEIRS study.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Aug 2008
Barton James C, Leiendecker-Foster Catherine, Reboussin David M, Adams Paul C, Acton Ronald T, Eckfeldt John H
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BACKGROUND: Relationships of thyroid and iron measures in large cohorts are unreported. We evaluated thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and free thyroxine (T4) in white participants of the primary care-based Hemochromatosis and Iron Overload Screening (HEIRS) Study. METHODS: We measured serum TSH and free T4 in 176 HFE C282Y homozygotes without previous hemochromatosis diagnoses and in 312 controls without HFE...
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