Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Pregnancy is a physiological state characterised by enhanced thyroid hormone production resulting in increased demand for iodine. Iodine deficiency during pregnancy, is therefore, considered to be a risk factor for adequate growth and development in offspring. However our understanding of thyroid hormone homeostasis in iodine deficient environment is limited.Objectives: 1)To assess the current iodine status in pregnant women from an endemic z...

Ample literature exists on thyroid functioning and adjustments in Iodine-sufficient pregnant women. But information from endemic-iodine zones is meagre. In this study we attempt to understand how the thyroid copes with the dual challenge of iodine deficiency posed by physiological status of pregnancy and that by Iodine-deficient environment.Objective: To compare TSH and FT4 profiles and their mutual correlation in iodine-deficient and iodine-sufficient s...