Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The guidelines of American Thyroid Association from 2011 include age over 30 as one of the risk factors for hypothyroidism in pregnancy. The aim of our study was to verify whether age increases the risk of autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) in pregnant women.Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study in 5223 unselected consecutive pregnant women in the 9th–12th gestational weeks. In a single laboratory, we measured serum concentrati...