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Thyroid
Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction and Functional Capacity among Elderly (doi: 10.1089/thy.2013.0071)
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Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction and Functional Capacity among Elderly
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Vanessa S. Virgini, MD *, Liselotte W. Wijsman, MD *, Nicolas Rodondi, MD, MAS , Douglas C.
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Bauer, MD, PhD , Patricia M. Kearney, MD, PhD , Jacobijn Gussekloo, MD, PhD , Wendy P. J. den
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Elzen, MD, PhD , J. Wouter Jukema, MD, PhD , Rudi G.J. Westendorp, MD, PhD , Ian Ford, MD,
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PhD , David J. Stott, MD, PhD and Simon P. Mooijaart, MD, PhD

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, on behalf of the PROSPER

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*Authors with equal contribution
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Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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([e-mail], [e-mail]); Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics,
Leiden

University

Medical

Center,

Leiden,

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Netherlands

([e-mail],

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[e-mail], [e-mail]); Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging,
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Leiden, the Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, San Francisco University Center, San
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Francisco, the United States of America ([e-mail]); Department of Epidemiology and
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Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland ([e-mail]); Department of Public
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Primary

Care,

Leiden

University

Medical

Center,

Leiden,

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Netherlands

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([e-mail], [e-mail]); Department of Cardiology, Leiden University
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Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands ([e-mail]); Institute of Health and Wellbeing,
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Robertson Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland ([e-mail]);