Long Period Observation of Biochemical Survey and Ultrasonography in Thyroid Diseases and Subclinical Thyroid Diseases

Clinical and subclinical thyroid disease is usually used to describe patients with mild symptoms correlated to hyperthyroid or hypothyroid state. Therapeutic decision for clinical and subclinical thyroid dysfunction should be considered individually. But long term outcome for treatment of such functional and structural thyroid diseases had not been recorded delicately in Taiwan. Further investigations should be observed in the future.The purpose of this study is aiming for early prevention and detection the potential risk factors for thyroid diseases in Taiwan.