Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: New research is demonstrating that thyroid hormone transport across cellular membranes plays an important role in tissue thyroid levels and is proving to have significant clinical significance. Thus, physicians who evaluate or treat thyroid dysfunction would benefit from an appreciation of this topic. Unfortunately, many physicians are not aware of new developments in the current understanding of thyroid hormone transport, which has resulted in an overreliance on the sole use of standard thyroid blood tests (e.g., thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and T4 levels) to determine the presence or absence of hypothyroidism. This has resulted in the misdiagnosis of many hypothyroid patients as being euthyroid. This overreliance on standard thyroid blood tests and the overconfidence of the diagnostic accuracy of standard thyroid blood tests may be particularly troublesome in the presence of a wide range of common comorbid conditions present in a large percentage of the population.
Source: Journal of Restorative Medicine
Author: Kent Holtorf
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2144744234