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Establishment of reference distributions and decision values for thyroid antibodies against thyroid peroxidase (TPOAb), thyroglobulin (TgAb) and the thyrotropin receptor (TRAb)

Background: The National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB) stresses that the reference intervals for thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPOAb), thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)-receptor antibodies (TRAb) should be based on young men who lack certain risk factors and have serum TSH between 0.5 and 2.0 mIU/L...

Keywords: composite distributions, ln-Gaussian distributions, models, NACB guidelines, rankit plot, reference interval, thyroid antibodies, thyroid hormones