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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2016 Oct;23(5):407–415. doi: 10.1097/MED.0000000000000275

Figure 2. Potential pathways of the association between thyroid dysfunction and mortality in chronic kidney disease patients.

Figure 2

Panel A: Thyroid dysfunction is causally associated with mortality. Panel B: Thyroid dysfunction is a marker of illness, which in and of itself is associated with mortality. Panel C: Thyroid dysfunction is an intermediate pathway between illness and mortality. Panel D: Thyroid dysfunction is not associated with mortality in certain populations (i.e., patients with protein-energy wasting).