Therapy guidelines
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2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid
This post continues my paraphrase of Jonklaas et al’s 2014 “Guidelines for the Treatment of Hypothyroidism: Prepared by the American Thyroid Association Task Force on Thyroid Hormone Replacement.” Posts in this series: 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid [this post]…
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2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics
Here I move on to part 2 of my summary of ATA thyroid therapy guidelines. Posts in this series: 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics [this post] 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 4. Using Synthetic T3 2014 ATA therapy guidelines: 5.…
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2014 ATA thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine
In this series of posts, I paraphrase a 2014 thyroid therapy guidelines document in a way that even the brain-fogged hypothyroid patient can understand more quickly and easily than reading the original version. Posts in this series: 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine [this post] 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics 2014 ATA…
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Biondi and Wartofsky’s 2014 dismissal of desiccated thyroid
Bernadette Biondi and Leonard Wartofsky’s article in 2014 titled “Treatment with Thyroid Hormone” summarily dismisses the use of desiccated thyroid medication in thyroid therapy. Tracing the logic of their dismissal back to their citation, a 1980 research article, reveals a fallacious chain of argument based on a very thin foundation. This pathway of reasoning promotes…