Direct versus indirect strategies for thyroid hormone reference intervals established in a middle-aged and elderly population on an immunoassay analyzer

Objectives: Establishment of reference values by direct strategy for selection of reference individuals is time-consuming and expensive for laboratories. The aim of this study was to establish reference intervals for thyrotrophin(TSH), free thyroxine (FT4), free triiodothyronine (FT3) in a middle-ag...

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Main Authors: Mustafa Metin Yıldırımkaya, Serpil Erdoğan, Birsen Sahillioğlu, Gönül Erden, Sedat Motor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Modestum Publishing LTD 2010-12-01
Series:Journal of Clinical and Experimental Investigations
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Online Access:http://jceionline.org/upload/sayi/3/JCEI-00627.pdf