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