another great scientific article about rt3 from 2008

[Guest guest]

This article shows that rt3 is the only thyroid hormon associated with shorter

survival rate of elderly men. Also, results show that despite normal ft3, rt3

was high in a group of patients, and this group showed worse results in mental

and physical tests.

And just last week my endo told me that when rt3 is high, ft3 will always be

low...and that rt3 has no influence on metabolism...

from the article:

" elevated rt3 appears far from rare in non-severely-ill patients and seems to be

associated with a poor global health status " .... " rt3 levels succeeded in

prediction early death in 98% of the cases (!)...while the t3, t4 and tsh were

found to not be correlated with mortality " .... " ew can now propose that elevated

rt3 may reflect more than simple the nutritional status but rather a poor

overall health status given the relationship betwin rt3 and survival rates " ... "

" This " high rt3 syndrom " might precede an overt " low t3 syndrom " or might be an

equivalent of it in the non-severly-ill patients. "

And in my country they don't even test rt3!! ah, this situation is driving me

crazy!! What an outrages situationl!

[Guest guest]

Thanks again. It's in the " files " section, description from the study's own

title " Increased Reverse T3 is Associated With Shorter Survival "

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> This article shows that rt3 is the only thyroid hormon associated with shorter

survival rate of elderly men. Also, results show that despite normal ft3, rt3

was high in a group of patients, and this group showed worse results in mental

and physical tests.

> And just last week my endo told me that when rt3 is high, ft3 will always be

low...and that rt3 has no influence on metabolism...

>

> from the article:

> " elevated rt3 appears far from rare in non-severely-ill patients and seems to

be associated with a poor global health status " .... " rt3 levels succeeded in

prediction early death in 98% of the cases (!)...while the t3, t4 and tsh were

found to not be correlated with mortality " .... " ew can now propose that elevated

rt3 may reflect more than simple the nutritional status but rather a poor

overall health status given the relationship betwin rt3 and survival rates " ... "

> " This " high rt3 syndrom " might precede an overt " low t3 syndrom " or might be

an equivalent of it in the non-severly-ill patients. "

>

>

> And in my country they don't even test rt3!! ah, this situation is driving me

crazy!! What an outrages situationl!

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