All premenopausal women with a certain type of thyroid tumor have very low levels of a key hormone (TSH), no matter how severe their thyroid symptoms are — but that low hormone level alone doesn’t tell us if their bones are being affected.

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Bone turnover in overt and subclinical hyperthyroidism due to autonomous thyroid adenoma.

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1992

The study found that all women with this thyroid tumor had very low TSH levels, but only those with high thyroid hormones had bone changes—so low TSH alone doesn’t mean bone problems.

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Bone turnover in overt and subclinical hyperthyroidism due to autonomous thyroid adenoma.

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DOI: 10.1159/000182315

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