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III. INFLUENCE OF WORK WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE THYROID GLAND

JAMES H. SMITH, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1928;42(1):47-52.

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The rise in metabolism due to work is well known.¹ Boothby and Sandiford² found that patients with exophthalmic goiter and adenomatous goiter with hyperthyroidism require nearly twice as much energy for a given piece of work as do normal persons or even patients with other diseases. A comparison of the basal metabolism and the metabolism as influenced by work in a series of fifty subjects is herein reported.

MATERIAL AND TECHNIC

The subjects were of three main groups: (a) normal persons (pupil nurses), thirteen; (b) patients clinically considered subjects of exophthalmic goiter or toxic adenoma, fifteen, and (c) other patients, twenty-two.

The basal metabolic rate is determined by indirect calorimetry, measuring the consumption of oxygen. The apparatus is provided with a drum which revolves in eight minutes. During the first five minutes, the technic does not vary from the routine except that explanation is first made of what the subject . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
RICHMOND, VA.

From the Medical Service of St. Luke's Hospital.

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