Altered laboratory thyroid parameters indicating hypothyroidism in elderly subjects

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• 作者：Maugeri ; Domenico ; Carnazzo ; Giuseppe ; Russo ; Mario Salvatore ; Di Stefano ; Fabio ; Catanzaro ; Salvatore ; et. al.
• 关键词：Hypothyroidism ; Elderly subject ; T3 ; T4 ; TSH
• 刊名：Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
• 出版年：1996
• 出版时间：July 8, 1996
• 年：1996
• 卷：23
• 期：1
• 页码：61-70
• 全文大小：408 K

文摘

The altered laboratory thyroid parameters indicating hypothyroidism were evaluated in a series of 3015 subjects over 65 years of age by determining total T3, total T4 and TSH. In addition, clinical signs of hypothyroidism were recorded in a subsample of 300 randomly selected elderly. Our results showed a high prevalence of altered laboratory thyroid parameters indicating hypothyroidism of 17.88 % , whereas the real prevalence (both clinical and laboratory) is 1.00 % with a female/male ratio of 2.00. The most frequent laboratory alterations was the so-called ‘alerted pituitary status’. The most common clinical signs of hypothyroidism involved the nervous system. We conclude that it is very difficult to diagnose hypothyroidism in the elderly and that the most indicative laboratory alterations seem to be TSH values above 3 IU/ml determined using the IRMA method.