The prectitioners role in thyroid gland disease treatment

Abstract

Thyreopathy is the most frequent disease between endocrinopathies. The GP should take care of patient suffering simple hypothyroidism, and should concentrate on subclinical thyroid function in women over 50years of age - 15% of them have subclinical hypothyroidism.

Keywords

• Thyroid gland
• subclinical thyroid disease
• antibodies TPOab- age