Screening of thyroid function in the hospitalized aged.
When a thyroid test was made on all the patients coming to a geriatric department of a hospital, markedly more new cases of hypothyroidism (17 as against 2), and also somewhat more new cases of hyperthyroidism (34 as against 21) were found than when the thyroid test was used only on clinical suspicion of thyroid dysfunction. The authors consider a thyroid test (T4?) worth taking systematically in all aged patients admitted to hospital.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006980:Hyperthyroidism / Q000517:prevention & control; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013960:Thyroid Function Tests