Toft Article

[mouldylocks]

Could anyone give me a link to the above please? Thanks in advance.....

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

You can obtain a copy of Dr Toft's Pulse magazine article by emailing Dionne at [e-mail]

I don't know of a link to the full article.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

You mean this one?

Professor Toft recent article saying, T3 may be necessary for many

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Dr Toft, past president of the British Thyroid Association and leading endocrinologist, states in Pulse Magazine,

"The appropriate dose of levothyroxine is that which restores euthyroidism and serum TSH to the lower part of the reference range - 0.2-0.5mU/l.

In this case, free thyroxine is likely to be in the upper part of its reference range or even slightly elevated – 18-22pmol/l.

Most patients will feel well in that circumstance. But some need a higher dose of levothyroxine to suppress serum TSH and then the serum-free T4 concentration will be elevated at around 24-28pmol/l.

This 'exogenous subclinical hyperthyroidism' is not dangerous as long as serum T3 is unequivocally normal – that is, serum total around T3 1.7nmol/l (reference range 1.0-2.2nmol/l)."

You can obtain a copy of the articles from Thyroid UK email print it and highlight question 6 to show your doctor

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