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From: glenm@athena.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: thyroid function tests
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Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 17:43:57 EST
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What is the current thinking on how to test whether
the thyroid is working properly?  Various medical books
I have talk about the problems with different tests.

A book I read by an endocrinologist (Broda Barnes) says that
the best way is by measuring one's temperature in the
armpit for 10 minutes before getting out of bed in the
morning; anything below 97.8 means that the thyroid may
have a problem.

Is there a test that is definitive?

	Glen McCluskey
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