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The most sensitive test among thyroid function test for detecting primary hypothyroidism?

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Primary hypothyroidism results from thyroid failure reducing T4 T3, removing negative feedback on pituitary. TSH rises earliest and most sensitively even when free T4 still normal, due to log-linear relationship. Thus elevated TSH is earliest marker before total T4 or T3 declines.

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