Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid diseases affect up to 4% of all pregnancies. Several evidence-based recommendations have been created to observe and treat thyroid diseases in pregnant women. We studied whether the diagnostics and treatment of hypothyroidism among pregnant women have improved in the course of time. Data consisted of all singleton pregnancies (N=571785) during 2004–2013 in Finland, collected from the Finnish Medical Birth Register (MBR). Data on maternal thyroid diseases ...

Introduction: Foetus is dependent on maternal thyroid hormone production during the first trimester. Thus, maternal thyroid dysfunction and thyroid antibodies may affect thyroid function of the offspring.Subjects and methods: We studied a subcohort (n=2000 mother–child-pairs) from a prospective population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (singleton births, total n=9247) covering data throughout pregnancy, childhood and adolesce...