Our new paper's abstract is now available in the above downloadable journal. The title is:
Functional and Symptomatic Individuality in the Response to Levothyroxine Treatment
Rudolf Hoermann, John Edward Midgley, Rolf Larisch and Johannes Wolfgang Dietrich
Front. Endocrinol. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00664
Full paper will be published in less than a month.
Thank you @diogenes!
'Symptomatic change in these patients was strongly associated with serum FT3, but not with FT4 or TSH concentrations.'
That's what we need to show in research articles 👍
Thank You for a great post Diogenes .
Just to mention that though we satisfied the reviewers, the associate editor overseeing our paper wouldn't accept it. Another editor then revoked her position, took it over himself and passed it straightaway. Now the editor revoked was someone who has been somewhat hostile to us and is part of a US group with an agenda of promoting a particular research topic on thyroid. I suspect our paper didn't sit well with what they thought would come out and so tried to torpedo it. It is the very first time I've ever encounteed this state of affairs. Doesn't leave a good taste in the mouth.
Good to see someone 'took over the situation'. Incredibly sad, yet an increasing sign of the times'. Thank you for everything that you and your colleagues do in this field.
Good heavens. Are you able to say what the research topic is?
Well, our paper was meant to be part of a collective topic on thyroid function and treatment which included some US researchers' contributions. It seems that our contribution jarred with our rivals and they tried to delay or squash it. But the honest senior editor put an end to that ploy.
Glad it got through. That bit about symptom relief/t3 is important.
Hi, listened to an interview on radio yesterday, they were discussing the view that in a modern world opinions are becoming more important than facts. Because opinions gather momentum quickly they just become the accepted truth, happening in every profession apparently.
Thank you for your work
Now available for free frontiersin.org/articles/10... . I hope to read it later today. Thanks for doing this research.
