The effect of thyroid hormone therapy on muscle function, strength and mass in older adults with subclinical hypothyroidism-an ancillary study within two randomized placebo controlled trials

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ² Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ³ Population Health Laboratory, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Interdisciplinary Center for Bone Diseases, Service of Rheumatology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Service of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition and Therapeutic Education, Department of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
• ⁷ School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
• ⁸ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Department of Public Health, Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
• ¹¹ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Section Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands.
• ¹² Department of Internal Medicine, Section Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands.
• ¹³ School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
• ¹⁴ Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
• ¹⁵ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ¹⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.