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2. Liothyronine - Wikipedia

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   Side effects may occur from excessive doses. [2] This may include weight loss, fever, headache, anxiety, trouble sleeping, arrhythmias, and heart failure. [2] Use in pregnancy and breastfeeding is generally safe. [3] [2] Liothyronine was approved for medical use in 1956. [2] It is available as a generic medication. [3]

3. Levothyroxine - Wikipedia

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   Levothyroxine is a synthetic form of thyroxine (T 4), which is secreted by the thyroid gland. Levothyroxine and thyroxine are chemically identical: natural thyroxine is also in the "levo" chiral form, the difference is only in terminological preference. T 4 is biosynthesized from tyrosine. Approximately 5% of the US population suffers from over ...

4. Thyroxine - Wikipedia

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   Thyroxine, also known as T 4, is a hormone produced by the thyroid gland.It is the primary form of thyroid hormone found in the blood and acts as a prohormone of the more active thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine (T 3). [1]

5. Desiccated thyroid extract - Wikipedia

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   It is used to treat hypothyroidism, [1] but less preferred than levothyroxine. [1] It is taken by mouth. [1] Maximal effects may take up to three weeks to occur. [1] Side effects may occur from excessive doses. [1] This may include weight loss, fever, headache, anxiety, trouble sleeping, arrhythmias, and heart failure. [1]

6. Hypothyroidism - Wikipedia

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   Adding liothyronine to levothyroxine has been suggested as a measure to provide better symptom control, but this has not been confirmed by studies. [9] [16] [66] In 2007, the British Thyroid Association stated that combined T 4 and T 3 therapy carried a higher rate of side effects and no benefit over T 4 alone.

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   BATH, Maine (AP) — Marine 1st Lt. Harvey “Barney” Barnum jumped to the ground when he came under fire during an ambush in Vietnam that killed his radio operator and commander.

8. Thyroid hormones - Wikipedia

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   Thyroid hormones act on nearly every cell in the body. They act to increase the basal metabolic rate, affect protein synthesis, help regulate long bone growth (synergy with growth hormone) and neural maturation, and increase the body's sensitivity to catecholamines (such as adrenaline) by permissiveness. [12]

9. Carbimazole - Wikipedia

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   The onset of anti-thyroid effect is rapid but the onset of clinical effects on thyroid hormone levels in the blood is much slower. This is because the large store of pre-formed T 3 and T 4 in the thyroid gland and bound to thyroid binding globulin (99% bound) has to be depleted before any beneficial clinical effect occurs.