Endocrine Abstracts

About 50% of women have nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. In about 35% of women who have these symptoms, nausea and vomiting are clinically significant, worsening their living conditions and consisting in a case of gender gap. The severe form, hyperemesis gravidarum, ranges from 0.3 to 1.0% of cases and is characterized by persistent vomiting, gestational thyrotoxicosis, weight loss of more than 5%, ketonuria, hypokalemia and dehydration, although the pathophysiological me...