Table 3.

Tukey HDS (‘Honestly Significant Difference’) post hoc test results indicating which groups significantly differ from others providing 95% confidence interval.

	At diagnosis		After treatment discontinuation
	Tukey HSD Q statistic	P value	Tukey HSD Q statistic	P value
TSH value
Athyreosis vs ectopy	4.9351	0.0066**	2.1721	0.4272
Athyreosis vs hypoplasia	5.7550	0.0013**	6.8050	0.0010**
Athyreosis vs dyshormonogenesis	5.9677	0.0010**	8.4170	0.0010**
Ectopy vs hypoplasia	2.0516	0.4923	4.7093	0.0094**
Ectopy vs dyshormonogenesis	2.2164	0.4106	6.1942	0.0010**
Hypoplasia vs dyshormonogenesis	0.1690	0.8999	1.2859	0.7772
T4 value
Athyreosis vs ectopy	3.995	0.035**	4.5641	0.0126**
Athyreosis vs hypoplasia	4.378	0.018**	8.0208	0.0010**
Athyreosis vs dyshormonogenesis	3.047	0.153	2.9966	0.1643
Ectopy vs hypoplasia	1.058	0.866	4.1226	0.0282**
Ectopy vs dyshormonogenesis	0.035	0.899	0.5289	0.8999
Hypoplasia vs dyshormonogenesis	0.923	0.899	4.0283	0.0332**

**P< 0.05.