Higher Prevalence of Non-thyroidal-Illness Syndrome in Elderly Male Patients With Active Helicobacter pylori Infection

Higher Prevalence of Non-thyroidal-Illness Syndrome in Elderly Male Patients With Active Helicobacter pylori Infection

Objective: It is currently unclear whether the Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection leads to associated alterations in thyroid functions and thyroidal illnesses. This study aims to analyse this relationship in an elderly male cohort over a five-year period.Design: A case retrospective study.Met...

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Main Authors: Banruo Sun, Xuanping Wang, Michael Edmund David McLarnon, Yu Ding, Miao Liu, Wei Dai, Gangshi Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
Helicobacter pylori
non-thyroidal-illness syndrome
thyroid function
thyroid morphology
elderly
male
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.682116/full

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