Thyroid Function and Thyroid Autoimmunity in Relation to Weight Status and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents: a Population-Based Study.

CONCLUSION: The obese children and adolescents had higher levels of thyrotropin than those with overweight and normal weight. These differences were of very little clinical significance, and are accounted in part for by the higher prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity in these subjects. This hyperthyrotropinemia was not associated with any cardiovascular risk factor. PMID: 26761948 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: JCRPE Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology - Category: Endocrinology Tags: J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol Source Type: research