Relationship between Thyroid Hormone and Body Fatin Young Japanese

Abstract

It is well known that excessively secreted thyroidhormone frequently reduces liplds in serum anddeprives thyrotoxic patients of their body weight.On the contrary, hypothyreoidic patients show anelevated level of serum lipids and a gain in weight.Thus thyroid hormone is supposed to play animportant role on body composition.It has yet to bestudied, however, if a variation of thyroid hormonesin a physiological range affects serum lipids andbody fat.In order to make this point clear, thepresent experiment was designed.