Age- and gender-specific reference intervals of TSH and free T4 in an iodine-replete area: Data from Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV (2013–2015)

So Young Park; Hae In Kim; Hyun-Kyung Oh; Tae Hyuk Kim; Hye Won Jang; Jae Hoon Chung; Myung-Hee Shin; Sun Wook Kim

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190738

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Age- and gender-specific reference intervals of TSH and free T4 in an iodine-replete area: Data from Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV (2013–2015)

So Young Park,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Thyroid Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7973-5944

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Hae In Kim,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Thyroid Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Hyun-Kyung Oh,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Tae Hyuk Kim,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Thyroid Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Hye Won Jang,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Education, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Jae Hoon Chung,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Thyroid Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Myung-Hee Shin ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Myung-Hee Shin, Sun Wook Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

* E-mail: swkimmd@skku.edu (SW Kim); myunghee.shin@gmail.com (MH Shin)

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Sun Wook Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Myung-Hee Shin, Sun Wook Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: swkimmd@skku.edu (SW Kim); myunghee.shin@gmail.com (MH Shin)

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Thyroid Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6858-3439

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Age- and gender-specific reference intervals of TSH and free T4 in an iodine-replete area: Data from Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV (2013–2015)

So Young Park,
Hae In Kim,
Hyun-Kyung Oh,
Tae Hyuk Kim,
Hye Won Jang,
Jae Hoon Chung,
Myung-Hee Shin,
Sun Wook Kim

Published: February 1, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190738

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The reference population of this paper is wrongly defined and should not be cited anymore ! Posted by tkim589 on 26 Jun 2019 at 02:13 GMT

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