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Kahaly GJ, editor. 70 Years of Levothyroxine [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2021. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-63277-9_8

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Fig. 1. Mean height and z-scores for bone mineral density and bone quality in adolescent/early adult subjects with congenital hypothyroidism treated early and continuously from birth with levothyroxine.

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Mean height and z-scores for bone mineral density and bone quality in adolescent/early adult subjects with congenital hypothyroidism treated early and continuously from birth with levothyroxine. aAd-Sos is “amplitude-dependent speed of sound” in bone, a measure of bone quality. Measurements were made in 12 males and 25 females (mean age 18 ± 1 year). (Drawn from data presented in Ref. [9])

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