She pulled the raw data from her 120 healthy subjects. Most were young—residents, techs, nurses under 40. Only seven were over 65. The elderly subgroup, small as it was, had a higher median TSH.
Mrs. Park wasn’t abnormal. Aliyah’s reference population was just too young. clsi ep28
She called Mrs. Park’s family. The levothyroxine was stopped. The arrhythmia resolved. She pulled the raw data from her 120 healthy subjects
Aliyah nodded. “But EP28 says if we have 120 subjects, nonparametric ranking is the gold standard. The 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles are 0.6 and 3.2. That’s our truth.” small as it was