Relationship between disease severity and thyroid function in Chinese patients with euthyroid sick syndrome.

Medicine (Baltimore) · 2018 · PMC6081175 · PMID 30075595

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Relationship between APACHE II score and thyroid function The mean (±SD) APACHE II score for the euthyroid, decreased fT3 or fT4, and decreased TSH groups were 13.23 (±3.56), 14.12 (±7.42), and 16.19 (±5.15), respectively, which implies that the APACHE II scores showed an increasing trend with increase in the severity of the disease.

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