Corrigendum
for
Poehlman et al., Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 264 (3) E450-E455.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 289: E358, 2005;
doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00217.2005
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Corrigendum
Volume 27, March 1993
Pages E450–E455: Poehlman ET, Goran MJ, Gardner AW, Ades PA, Arcerio PJ, Katzman-Rooks SN, Montgomery SM, Toth MJ, and Sutherland PT. "Determinants of decline in resting metabolic rate in aging females" (http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/264/3/E450). In the referenced paper, we reported cross-sectional changes in a number of physiological and metabolic markers in a cohort of 183 women aged 18–81 yr. In particular, we reported a significant decline in total triiodothyronine (T3) and free T3 as the women aged, and we concluded that aging per se might contribute to these reduced hormone concentrations (see Fig. 3, A and B, Table 2, and related text).
I now wish to report that the data for total T3 and free T3 in that paper were falsified and that the actual data reveal that there is no significant decline in total or free T3 with age. The actual thyroid hormone data demonstrate a positive, but not significant, correlation with age, in contrast to the false claim of a statistically significant decline with age.
This paper is therefore being corrected by the publisher, the American Physiological Society, at the request of the author, E. T. Poehlman, as required by the Office of Research Integrity. (A Letter to the Editor is published in this issue.)
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