この章の統計は、1990年以降の米国人口国勢調査局の報告と次の参考文献から引用しました。
- Articles from The Bridge, a quarterly publication of the Thyroid Foundation of America, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
- Braverman, Lewis E., and Robert D. Utiger. Werner and Ingbar's The Thyroid, A Fundamental and Clinical Text, 6th ed. (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Compan 199l)
- Tunbndge, Mrchael G., et al., "The Spectrum of Thyroid Disease in a Community: The Whickham Survey," Clinical Endocrinology 7 (1977): 481.
- Wood, Lawrence C., David S. Cooper, and E. Chester Ridway. Your Thyroid, A Home Reference, (New York: Ballantine Books, 1995).