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Should the upper limit of the normal reference range for TSH be lowered?

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boxed-text Hamilton TE et al. (2008) TSH levels in a population with no clinical, autoantibody, or ultrasonographic evidence of thyroid disease: implications for the diagnosis of subclinical hypothyroidism. J Clin Endocrinol Metab [doi:10.1210/jc.2006-2300]

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  1. MI Surks is Program Director of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and a Professor of Medicine and Pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,

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