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| Title |
Regulation of the Pituitary-Thyroid Axis in Adulthood Is Not Related to Birth Weight: Evidence from Extremely Birth Weight–Discordant Monozygotic Danish Twin Pairs
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| Published in |
Thyroid, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1089/thy.2012.0095 |
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| Authors |
Morten Frost, Inge Petersen, Laszlo Hegedüs, Lene Christiansen, Thomas Brix, Kaare Christensen |
| Abstract |
Low birth weight has been linked with changes in thyroid function in adulthood, but it is unknown whether fetal programming or underlying genetic and environmental factors explains the association. We hypothesized that birth weight influences the pituitary-thyroid set point in adults. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 25 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 25 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 24% |
| Other | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 16% |
| Unknown | 7 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 16% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 8% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 9 | 36% |