Few Patients With Hyperlipidemia Receive Recommended Thyroid Screening

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131113130145.htm

Nov. 13, 2013 — Despite current guidelines that recommend newly diagnosed high-cholesterol patients have a TSH blood test done to make sure they do not have hypothyroidism, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that only about half of these patients were screened for thyroid dysfunction. The findings, which appear online in JAMA Internal Medicine, show the current guidelines may be underutilized.

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