Screening For Hypothyroidism In Elderly Inpatients
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1975Author
Bahemuka, M.
Hodkinson, HM.
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Routine biochemical screening for hypothyroidism in 2000 geriatric inpatients proved valuable and practicable and yielded 46 cases (2.3%). A non-specific clinical picture was particularly common, with less than a third of the cases showing "typical" signs and symptoms. Psychiatric manifestations, especially depression, were important and frequent and responded well to thyroxine. There was a preponderance of female cases of hypothyroidism and a strong association with other autoimmune diseases, notably pernicious anaemia and rheumatoid arthritis.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1673495/http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30731
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1131632
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Br Med J. 1975 June 14; 2(5971): 601–603.Publisher
University of Nairobi Department of Medicine
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