Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) prompts the thyroid gland to increase hormone production. Your body uses TSH to control ...

Researchers have discovered in a new study that abnormal serum thyroid hormone levels are independently correlated with a ...

Normal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels generally fall between 0.5 and 5.0 milliunits per liter (mU/L). If your TSH level is higher than 5.0 mU/L it suggests an underactive thyroid ...

A TSH test measures blood levels of the thyroid stimulating hormone to diagnose a thyroid disorder. Your doctor will order a TSH test if you exhibit thyroid disorder symptoms like hair loss or ...

[204] In cases where TSH appears inappropriately elevated, a thyroid hormone suppression test (1mg L-T4 or 200µg L-T3, po) would be expected to suppress serum TSH more than 90% by 48 hours in ...

Q: My husband had been getting testosterone shots every three weeks for many years for Low T. I was concerned that this might be affecting his heart, so he agreed to stop the shots this summer and see ...

Standard dosing algorithms could be responsible for the higher rates of thyrotoxicosis among older women vs men prescribed levoythroxine.

In Sapporo city of Japan, neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism has used the measurement of free thyroxine (T4) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in the filter-paper blood spot.

For more than twenty-five years, TSH methods have been able to detect the TSH elevations that are characteristic of primary hypothyroidism. Modern-day TSH methods however, with their enhanced ...