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Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
Pituitary hormone that regulates thyroid hormone production; commonly used as a first-line thyroid function test and interpreted with free T4 and clinical context.
What is measured?
The level, concentration or activity of this biomarker measured in the relevant blood sample.
What the result represents?
Aden's range
What a raised or a low result can indicate
How Aden reads it as part of a system?
Aden reads this result alongside free T4, free T3, TPOAb, TgAb, TRAb and your previous measurements. It is treated as one part of the wider thyroid picture, not as a diagnosis on its own.
What changes between tests?
Which related markers give it context?
free T4, free T3, TPOAb, TgAb, TRAb
How to get this tested?
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