Table 1.
(A) Patient characteristics | Characteristics present in question stem according to question number | ||||||||||||
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Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q8 | Q9 | Q10 | Q11 | Q12 | Q13 | Q14 | Q15 | Q16 | Q17 | |
Symptoms | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Serum TSH (mIU/L) | 2.2 | 2.2 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
Serum T3 (ng/dL) | 120 | 120 | 120 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 |
Requests LT3 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Athyreotic | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
LT3 preference | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Male | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Polymorphism | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Age | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 59 | 29 | 59 |
BMI | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 32 | 25 |
Comorbidity | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Question numbers refer to those used in the survey provided in the Supplementary Material. Each question incorporates the patient characteristics in the left-hand column, as indicated by each column in the body of the table.