Scientific Programme & Abstracts from the International Meeting in Pediatric Endocrinology (IMPE)

impe0096p153 | Thyroid | IMPE2023

Establishment and verification of pediatric thyrotrophin and thyroid hormones reference intervals using indirect methods.

Ethel Zaidman Veronica , Chaler Eduardo , Dujovne Noelia , Gazek Natalia , Pelanda Melina , Garin Gomez Sabrina , Lopez Micaela , Ciaccio Marta , Manuel Lazzati Juan

Introduction and aim: Establishing reference intervals (RI) is particularly problematic for constituents with a large diversity of existing biological variation and inter-population differences, as is observed for thyroid hormones and TSH. An alternative to this problem is to use indirect methods, with a large data pools base of results. Analyze thousands of subjects including some pathologic results is statistically stronger than 120 subjects that assume heal...