Medicines Management for Nurses

at a Glance

Simon Young, Ben Pitcher

Multiple Choice: Chapter 35 Thyroid conditions 

Question 1 Levothyroxine and liothyronine are given to patients with underactive thyroid. In what way are they different from the endogenously created hormones (T3 and T4)

A They have shorter half-lives
B They have longer half-lives
C They cause more side effects
D They are synthetically created but otherwise identical