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III. MYXEDEMA AND HYPERCHOLESTEREMIA

LEWIS M. HURXTHAL, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1934;53(5):762-781.

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Numerous observations on the blood cholesterol in thyroid disease have been made and reported in the literature. References to the more important of these were included in a previous communication from the Lahey Clinic.¹ Since then reports of further investigations have appeared; yet in most of these a relatively small number of cases have been studied and fewer still have been followed from time to time.

Levy² followed the variations in the blood cholesterol in exophthalmic goiter treated by roentgen rays, and found variable results. Of ten cases, however, six showed a cholesterol value of more than 230 mg. per hundred cubic centimeters. Such findings seem unusual, because in this study less than 1 per cent of the patients with exophthalmic goiter were found to have a cholesterol value of this magnitude. Hilman³ concluded, as did Epstein,⁴ that hypercholesteremia was definite evidence against exophthalmic goiter, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Medical Department of the Lahey Clinic and the Chemical Laboratory of the New England Deaconess Hospital.

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