Research Article
Pediatric TSH Reference Intervals and Prevalence of High Thyroid Antibodies in the Lebanese Population
Table 4
Multivariate regression analysis with TSH as a dependent variable.
| | Beta | Std error | p value |
| Total population | Constant | 2.44 | 0.18 | <0.0001 | BMI | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.001 | Age | −0.06 | 0.011 | <0.0001 | SES | 0.11 | 0.04 | 0.008 | Sex | −0.16 | 0.07 | 0.018 | Thyroid antibodies | 0.17 | 0.16 | 0.28 |
| Boys | Constant | 2.351 | 0.265 | <0.0001 | BMI | 0.005 | 0.002 | 0.003 | Age | −0.058 | 0.017 | 0.001 | SES | 0.128 | 0.057 | 0.026 | Thyroid antibodies | −0.349 | 0.282 | 0.217 |
| Girls | Constant | 2.399 | 0.248 | <0.0001 | BMI | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.145 | Age | −0.059 | 0.015 | <0.0001 | SES | 0.093 | 0.056 | 0.097 | Thyroid antibodies | 0.469 | 0.192 | 0.015 |
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