ON THE CHLORIDE CONTENT IN THERMAL SWEAT OF HYPERTHYROID PATIENTS
- 1 June 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Acta Endocrinologica
- Vol. 13 (2) , 138-144
- https://doi.org/10.1530/acta.0.0130138
Abstract
Epigastric sweat was collected from 11 controls, 7 mildly hyperthyroid and 16 severely hyperthyroid female patients. In 4 of the mildly hyperthyroid patients the BMR was within normal limits but in all of the severe cases it was over + 30%. Thermal sweat contained less chloride than normal in the hyperthyroid group, but the scatter of the points is great, so that the mild cases have 100% overlap and the severe ones have 30% overlap with the normal group.Keywords
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