Levothyroxine Treatment in Thyroid Benign Nodular Goiter

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

We will study the effect of taking eltroxin at different time, i.e. fasting or postprandial periods. We will also study the effect of levothyroxin treatment in Chinese people

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. age between 20 to 90 years old

2. Benign nodular goiter diagnosed with thyroid echo and fine-needle - aspiration cytology

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Age younger than 20 or older than 90 years old

2. Pregnancy

3. Allergy to eltroxin

4. Taking other drugs which will have drug interaction with eltroxin

5. patients with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, gastrointestinal disease