The Relationship between Population T4/TSH Set Point Data and T4/TSH Physiology

Figure 5

The generation of a population T4/TSH relationship by nonrandom associations between the physiological curves. In this example there is a hypothetical association between insensitive thyroids and sensitive pituitaries (this might occur by evolution to minimise T4 variation). The sizes of the circles, as in Figure 4, are proportionate to the number of individuals in the population with T4/TSH levels at that point. The line of best fit has a small negative slope.