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...

Background: It is well established that during pregnancy, normal physiological changes occur concomitant with an enhanced metabolic demand for thyroxine/iodine. If dietary iodine intake is sufficient, normal equilibrium is achieved. With deficient iodine intake, the demand not being met, it is believed that pathological alterations occur leading to maternal thyroxineaemia and impaired growth and neurodevelopmental disorders in the offspring. However, there are very few studies...