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This newly published proposal for a meaningful clinical trial of combination therapy has just been publicised. At the moment it's only an abstract of what is intended. I look forward to its full publication. It seems that new combination trials are afoot as are NDT ones.

Front. Endocrinol. | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00168

Design of the Optimal Trial of Combination Therapy

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I’ve been thinking about this. They need to set up trials which focus on symptom resolution and getting thyroid hormones back up to reasonable levels and not focus on TSH! Anyway I suppose this is progress! Fingers crossed.

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Thanks Diogenes. I hope they don’t test this on hypothyroid patients happy on levothyroxine only and set a “normal” number for the TSH. If, as I suspect, they do then frankly I wish they wouldn’t bother.

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