Refining Diagnostic Precision: The Impact of Race in Clinical Labs
Samantha Anderer’s Medical News in Brief, Thyroid Disease May be Overdiagnosed, Study Finds, recounted an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine which found that variables, including race, may significantly influence thyroid hormone levels and affect diagnostic accuracy.[1],[2] Compared to current laboratory reference values, the distribution of thyroid disease diagnosis greatly changed when accounting for […]
