Levothyroxine, a drug used to treat hypothyroidism, can lead to reduced bone mass and density in older adults with normal thyroid levels, a small cohort study has shown. Researchers from Johns Hopkins ...
New research questions the benefits for some older adults of screening colonoscopies and the drug levothyroxine (Synthroid) ...
About one-quarter of adults aged at least 60 years using levothyroxine were able to stop therapy and maintain a thyroid-stimulating hormone level of less than 10 mIU/L at 1 year, researchers reported ...
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Many older patients can ditch common thyroid drug, study suggests
Experts call for better guidance on levothyroxine initiation, deprescribing ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prescribed to treat hypothyroidism and thyroid cancer, around 7% of the U.S. population takes levothyroxine. The drug is a ...
About 1 in 4 overall and two thirds of those taking doses of 50 µg/d or lower were able to come off the treatment while maintaining adequate thyroid function for 1 year.
To address this, researchers conducted a prospective, single-group study in community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older ...
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