Evaluated reference intervals for serum free thyroxine and thyrotropin using the conventional outliner rejection test without regard to presence of thyroid antibodies and prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in japanese subjects

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1059-1066

  Takeda, Kyoko ^a   Mishiba, Masaaki ^b   Sugiura, Hideko ^a   Nakajima, Atsuko ^a   Kohama, Mika ^a   Hiramatsu, Sonoe ^a  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b LSI MEDIENCE CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Free thyroxine; Reference intervals; Smirnov Grubbus' outlier test; Thyrotropin

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SMIRNOV GRUBBUS TEST; TECHNIQUE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74749100838     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K09E-123     Document Type: Article

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