Reference intervals for TSH and thyroid hormones are mainly affected by age, body mass index and number of blood leucocytes, but hardly by gender and thyroid autoantibodies during the first decades of life

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1091-1098

  Kratzsch, J ^a   Schubert, G ^a   Pulzer, F ^a   Pfaeffle, R ^a   Koerner, A ^a   Dietz, A ^a   Rauh, M ^b   Kiess, W ^a   Thiery, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescents; BMI SDS; Children; Neonate; Reference range; TG ab; Thyroid hormones; TPO Ab; TSH; White blood cells

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELL COUNT; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTOANTIBODIES; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 49349108558     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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