Patients treated for overt hypothyroidism with the standard replacement therapy levothyroxine (LT4) often continue to show abnormal cholesterol levels despite normalization of thyroid stimulating ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 82-year-old woman in good health. I recently had labwork that showed my TSH level is 6.14. I was told that I would need thyroid medicine because eventually I would feel tired ...

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Thyroxine and L-thyroxine are two of the 10 most frequently prescribed medicinal products. "One large health insurance company ranks thyroid hormone at fourth place in the list of most-sold ...

Levels of thyroid function considered "normal" were still associated with increased mortality, according to a study suggesting that cardiovascular disease (CVD) plays an important role. People ...

My personal practice is to not treat people with high TSH, normal thyroxine and no symptoms unless the TSH levels are above 10. Treating people under 65 with TSH above 7 might also make sense. Some of ...