Defining the newborn blood spot screening reference interval for TSH: Impact of ethnicity

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3445-3449

  Peters, Catherine ^a   Brooke, Ivan ^a   Heales, Simon ^a   Ifederu, Adeboye ^a   Langham, Shirley ^a   Hindmarsh, Peter ^a   Cole, Tim J ^b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; THYROXINE;

AFRICAN; ARTICLE; BANGLADESHI; BRITISH CITIZEN; CARIBBEAN (PERSON); CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLAND; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIAN; IRISH (CITIZEN); MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PAKISTANI; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; BLOOD; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMARKERS; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROXINE;

EID: 84988971853     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2016-1822     Document Type: Article

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