Different thyroid assays may greatly affect diagnosis and management of hypothyroidism

BMJ. 2021 Jun 9:373:n1458. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n1458.

Authors

Tejas Kalaria¹, Anna Sanders², Jonathan Fenn¹, Harit N Buch³, Clare Ford¹, Helen L Ashby², Pervaz Mohammed², Rousseau Gama^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Biochemistry, New Cross Hospital, Black Country Pathology Services, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK.
² Clinical Biochemistry, Russells Hall Hospital, Black Country Pathology Services, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Dudley, UK.
³ Endocrinology, New Cross Hospital, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK.
⁴ School of Medicine and Clinical Practice, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK.

PMID: 34108149
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n1458

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Hypothyroidism* / diagnosis
Hypothyroidism* / drug therapy
Thyrotropin

Substances

Thyrotropin