Endocrine Abstracts

Screening is defined as ‘the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defect by the application of tests, examinations, or other procedures which can be applied rapidly. Screening tests sort out apparently well persons who probably have a disease from those who probably do not’. Ideally all the following criteria should be met: The Condition should be an important health problem; well known epidemiology and natural history of the condition. The test shou...

Context: Euthyroid women positive for thyroid antibodies are prone to develop subclinical/overt hypothyroidism during gestation and seem to suffer from a poor outcome.Objective: Assessing if patients with autoimmune thyroid disease undergoing Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) are afflicted by poor pregnancy and/or delivery rate and if the outcome is conditioned by pre-ART thyroid status.Design: Prospective study since Januar...