Table III.

Multiple linear regression analysis of covariates with TSH^¶

Parameter	Men (N = 290)			Women (N = 309)
	Coeff. β	SE	P-value	Coeff. β	SE	P-value
Age, 11 years	0.044	0.011	0.006	–0.033	0.022	0.057
Free triiodothyronine (fT3), 0.33 pg/ml	–0.017	0.015	0.24	–0.057	0.016	< 0.001
Free thyroxine (fT4), 0.15 ng/ml	0.01	0.015	0.52	–0.035	0.015	0.024
Total cholesterol, 40 mg/dl	0.000	0.04	0.66	0.04	0.04	0.49
LDL-cholesterol, 38 mg/dl	0.000	0.038	0.75	–0.0006	0.038	0.99
Variance; r 2	3%; p = 0.044			8%; p < 0.01

^¶log-transformed values.