Sentence examples for impaired thyroid function from inspiring English sources

High fluoride level can cause negative effects on human health, such as dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, impaired thyroid function, and lower intelligence in children (Edmunds and Smedley 2013).

These data indicate that an impaired thyroid function is associated with more severe disease.

Lead exposure has been found to increase risk of numerous conditions that may have adverse effects on nervous system function, including hypertension, impaired renal function, impaired thyroid function, vitamin D deficiency, and preterm birth [ 5].

The significant association with TSH, but not with T4, in this group may be due to the greater sensitivity of TSH to impairment of thyroid function; that is, normal T4 levels are maintained by increasing TSH to compensate for impaired thyroid function.

Impaired thyroid function should also be excluded.

Also, the 4.5 times higher proportion of dispensed thyroid therapy corresponds to a four times higher prevalence of impaired thyroid function in women.

In our study, impaired thyroid functions and thyroid autoantibodies in vitiligo and AA patients were identified at lower rates than the previous studies.

Individuals who were on medications that could potentially impair thyroid function e.g. Lithium were excluded.

Background: Animal studies suggest that some perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs), including perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), and perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) may impair thyroid function.

Perchlorate can impair thyroid function by inhibiting the uptake of iodide, thereby reducing the amount of iodide stored in the thyroid and available for hormone production (NRC 2005; Ting et al. 2006).

Based on the relative concentrations of perchlorate, nitrate, and thiocyanate likely to be found in human serum, several researchers have predicted that nitrate and thiocyanate are more likely than perchlorate to impair thyroid function (DeGroef et al. 2006; Gibbs 2006).