Sakai, Yuki
Iversen, Valentina
Reitan, Solveig Klæbo
Article History
Received: 12 March 2018
Accepted: 16 July 2018
First Online: 28 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Oral and written informed consent was given by all participants. This study was approved by the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics (REK 199/04) and by Middle Norway and Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) and was registered at ExternalRef removed (NCT00184418; ExternalRef removed NCT00184418). Data collection and analysis were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Analyses for TSH and FT4 upon admission were part of the hospital routine procedure. For patients giving consent, data were collected from hospital files, and in addition, another test was taken upon discharge.
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