Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It is well established fact that the thyroid gland and heart have diverged from the same ancestral origin, thus have close metabolic relationship. Any alteration in the thyroid hormone profile, either hyper or hypo thyroid conditions may lead to manifestation of cardiac diseases. In routine clinical procedures abnormalities in the thyroid hormone levels were commonly observed in the cases of chronic heart failures.Objective: To Evaluate and...

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...