Slow metabolism persists despite levothyroxine therapy in hypothyroidism with obesity

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Slow metabolism persists despite levothyroxine therapy in hypothyroidism with obesity

Gianluca Perseghin Women with obesity and primary hypothyroidism prescribed levothyroxine continued to have a lower resting energy expenditure, a measurement of whole-body metabolism, when compared with similar women who were euthyroid, accordin