What does TSH stand for?

Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone

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Graves'' disease is a thyroid-specific autoimmune disorder in which the body makes antibodies to the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR), leading to hyperthyroidism, or an abnormally strong release of hormones from the thyroid gland Graves'' disease is a thyroid-specific autoimmune disorder in which the body makes antibodies to the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR), leading to hyperthyroidism, or an abnormally strong release of hormones from the thyroid gland.

Graves Disease ? Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Compared with people who had normal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels, people with mildly low levels of the hormone (detectable only with a blood test) were twice as likely to develop congestive heart failure.

Mild hypothyroidism may double risk of heart failure

After medication is prescribed, Collins recommends following up with a TSH blood test in six to eight weeks, to recheck thyroid-stimulating hormone levels, then follow-up testing every six months to one year while on medication.

Thyroid disorders get out in the open (thanks, Oprah)

Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which is made in the pituitary gland and circulates in the body, pumps up production of thyroid hormone, an important regulator of metabolism.

Bad for the bones: thwarted hormone leads to skeletal decay

Measurement of the blood level of the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4), as well as the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), may be all that's necessary.

Dr Miriam Stoppard's Health Focus: Getting it in the neck; Today: THE ...

A blood test for thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) can establish the diagnosis, and thyroxin (T4) tablets provide the necessary hormone.

Thyroid hormone - a little goes a long way

and colleagues from Osaka University Medical School measured in 132 healthy women in early pregnancy and in 20 nonpregnant healthy women blood levels of thyroxine (T4), of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), and of the early-pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which causes the release of a variety of hormones that maintain the pregnancy and is also known to have a thyroid-stimulating effect.

Pregnancy morning sickness caused by thyroid changes

4]) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which stimulates [T.

Thyroid alert: low iodine and perchlorate effects in women