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TSH is Inadequate for Measuring Hypothyroidism Severity

February, 2003 -- Reporting in the February 2003 issue of the British Medical Journal, Swiss researchers have said that "the biological effects of thyroid hormones at the peripheral tissues--and not TSH concentrations--reflect the clinical severity of hypothyroidism."

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