TY - BOOK AU - Therese Sobhy Ghatas AU - Amany Atf Elkarim Abozeid , AU - Mayas Mohamed Sheraf Eldin , AU - Tyseer Mohamed Eiada , TI - Assessment of some endocrinal functions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Therese Sobhy Ghatas , KW - COPD KW - Hormones KW - Thyroxine N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Chest diseases and Tuberculosis; Issued also as CD N2 - This work to asses some endocrinal changes in COPD . TT4, fT3, fT4, TSH, and insulin levels were normal in all COPD . Despite the TT3 hormone level were normal in all stages of COPD , there is reduction in hormone levels in stage III and stage IV than control subjects . There is also reduction in TT3 / TT4 ratio in severe COPD and there is correlation between TT3 , TT4 ratio Pa02 in stage III and stage IV but no correlation between TT3 / TT4 ratio and Pa o2 in stage I and stage II UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -