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Bamini Gopinath, PhD; Gerald Liew, MBBS; Victoria M. Flood, PhD; Jie Jin Wang, PhD; Annette Kifley, PhD; Stephen R. Leeder, MD, PhD; Paul Mitchell, MD, PhD

Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(20):2283-2284.

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A recent article¹ and editorial² in the Archives investigated the relationship between thyroid function, within the normal reference range and body weight gain. Fox et al¹ observed that change in serum thyrotropin concentration (TSH) was strongly and linearly associated with weight gain. The authors, however, did not account for diet and physical activity, covariates known to be strongly associated with weight change. We also examined the relationship between TSH within the reference range and weight change over a 5-year period, accounting also for baseline dietary parameters and reported physical activity.

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The Blue Mountains Eye Study (BMES) is a population-based cohort study of age-related eye diseases and other health outcomes. Methods used to ascertain and survey this population were previously described.³ During 1992 though . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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