Thyroid stimulating hormone and free thyroxine in pregnancy: Expressing concentrations as multiples of the median (moms)

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 430, Issue , 2014, Pages 33-37

  Bestwick, Jonathan P ^a   John, Rhys ^b   Maina, Aldo ^c   Guaraldo, Varvara ^c   Joomun, Mohammed ^a   Wald, Nicholas J ^a   Lazarus, John H ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c REGINA MARGHERITA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free T4; MoM; Multiple of the median; Pregnancy; TSH

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MULTIPLES OF MEDIAN; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892857252     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2013.12.030     Document Type: Article

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