The ATA is worried about doctors prescribing T3/T4 combo therapy

Here, I comment on a brief October 2018 article in a journal of the American Thyroid Association — the association that writes the guidelines that dismisses Free T3 testing and T3/T4 therapy. Link: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ct.2018%3B30.523-525 This article shows the leading endocrinologists are getting worried about doctors not adhering to guidelines. They did a study that showed that doctors are being tempted to prescribe T3/T4 combo therapy in certain patients who have symptoms and low Free T3 levels. They can’t stop patients from complaining of symptoms, so perhaps one way to stop this trend is to disallow them from measuring Free T3, …

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