ORLANDO, Fla. — Steering clinicians toward a cascade approach for thyroid function testing cut unnecessary orders by a monthly average of 15% and concurrent orders by 19% per month, according to ...

Whether clinicians are accurately diagnosing thyroid disease was at issue for Chinese researchers who demonstrated that adding subgroup differences according to age, sex, or race when testing for ...

New research shows that standard thyroid test ranges may misclassify many patients, especially when age, sex, and race aren’t factored in. Adjusted reference intervals significantly changed diagnoses ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers created thyroid function reference ranges adjusted for age, sex and racial-ethnic background. Using ...

The chances of having a low or high rate of thyroid function — hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, respectively — increase as you age, according to a 2019 review. The TSH hormone regulates the thyroid ...