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Harmonized reference ranges for Total and Free T levels
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<blockquote data-quote="tareload" data-source="post: 218745"><p>AS we have talked about, there is a significant discrepancy between various fT measurements reported in the lit and used for model validation. For example see ref 28 above.</p><p></p><p>The authors of that paper picked two studies (TED/TDSM trials) and clearly the cFTz looks better than the cFTv:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]20035[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]20038[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Model G (vs Model A) isotherm fits also clearly better:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]20036[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]20037[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.excelmale.com/forum/threads/calculate-free-testosterone-with-trut-by-fpt.18468/post-189341" target="_blank">As posted previously </a>(see all the posts below this one) you can dig back through the literature and find study data where cFTv does much better job than cFTz as well. THE question is why? I'm pretty sure the authors of present paper are very aware of that data and I'm curious why they didn't include these refs with ref 28 in the current paper?</p><p></p><p>One <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/103/6/2167/4956600" target="_blank">example</a>:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.excelmale.com/forum/attachments/1603342765919-png.11197/" class="bbImage" alt="" data-url="https://www.excelmale.com/forum/attachments/1603342765919-png.11197/" style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am very interested to see the results from the fT harmonization process and how that affects or potentially invalidates/validates the model comparisons that have been published in the last 15 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tareload, post: 218745"] AS we have talked about, there is a significant discrepancy between various fT measurements reported in the lit and used for model validation. For example see ref 28 above. The authors of that paper picked two studies (TED/TDSM trials) and clearly the cFTz looks better than the cFTv: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1646242576332.png"]20035[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1646243210212.png"]20038[/ATTACH] Model G (vs Model A) isotherm fits also clearly better: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1646242633653.png"]20036[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1646242654647.png"]20037[/ATTACH] [URL='https://www.excelmale.com/forum/threads/calculate-free-testosterone-with-trut-by-fpt.18468/post-189341']As posted previously [/URL](see all the posts below this one) you can dig back through the literature and find study data where cFTv does much better job than cFTz as well. THE question is why? I'm pretty sure the authors of present paper are very aware of that data and I'm curious why they didn't include these refs with ref 28 in the current paper? One [URL='https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/103/6/2167/4956600']example[/URL]: [IMG]https://www.excelmale.com/forum/attachments/1603342765919-png.11197/[/IMG] I am very interested to see the results from the fT harmonization process and how that affects or potentially invalidates/validates the model comparisons that have been published in the last 15 years. [/QUOTE]
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