by British Medical Journal Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Twelve months of heavy resistance training—exercise that makes muscles work against force—around the time of retirement preserves vital leg strength years later, show the follow-up results of a clinical trial, published online in the open access journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. Depletion of leg muscle...
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Direct Measurement of T3 Is Likely Vital, Say Researchers
Marlene Busko To assess thyroid function, clinicians typically determine blood levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and thyroxine (T4) and do not directly measure triiodothyronine (T3). However, findings from a large observational study of a US sample of adults with normal thyroid function suggested that subclinical variation in the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT)–axis effector hormone T3 “is an...