A 37-year-old member asked:
for blood tests, under a basic metabolic panel, what does tsh 3rd generation mean?
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Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
49 years experience Pathology
More sensitive than: Second generation. Third generation TSH assays can detect both hyper and hypo-function of thyroid gland. Second generation can only detect hypo-function.
Answered on Jun 19, 2018
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