Establishment of reference distributions and decision values for thyroid antibodies against thyroid peroxidase (TPOAb), thyroglobulin (TgAb) and the thyrotropin receptor (TRAb)

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 991-998

  Jensen, Esther A ^a   Petersen, Per Hyltoft ^a,b   Blaabjerg, Ole ^a   Hansen, Pia Skov ^a,c   Brix, Thomas H ^a,c   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Composite distributions; In Gaussian distributions; Models; NACB guidelines; Rankit plot; Reference interval; Thyroid antibodies; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THYROID DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; REFERENCE VALUES; REGISTRIES; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; TWIN STUDIES;

EID: 33746618003     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14346621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2006.166     Document Type: Article

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