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Table 4 Proportion (%) new-borns with nTSH >5 mIU/L in heel prick blood by laboratory and calendar year and by age at heel prick sampling and calendar year (both Cochran-Mantel-Haenzel test)

From: Neonatal heel prick screening TSH concentration in the Netherlands as indicator of iodine status

 

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

p-value

Laboratory

 Zwolle

0.45

0.67

0.50

0.93

0.73

0.72

0.48

0.62

0.55

0.8723

 Tilburg

0.38

0.55

0.71

0.87

0.69

0.96

0.93

0.69

0.78

0.0018

 Capelle

0.44

0.63

0.72

0.97

0.80

0.96

0.77

0.69

0.78

0.0450

 Bilthoven

0.46

0.50

0.81

0.96

0.78

0.69

0.81

0.91

0.76

0.0157

 Amsterdam

1.40

1.59

1.55

2.44

1.41

1.31

0.96

1.14

2.58

0.3723

Age

 day 3

0.81

1.13

0.97

1.7

0.62

0.95

0.89

0.99

1.28

0.8156

 day 4

0.8

0.9

1.01

1.35

1.09

1.01

1.02

0.91

1.16

0.0681

 day 5

0.54

0.7

0.71

0.85

0.67

0.91

0.5

0.78

0.93

0.0529

 day 6

0.47

0.55

0.92

1.41

0.65

0.73

0.58

0.5

0.94

0.4966

 day 7

0.15

0.76

0.64

1.33

1.02

0.89

0.36

0.77

1.1

0.029