Pattern of thyroid function during early pregnancy in women diagnosed with subclinical hypothyroidism and treated with L-thyroxine is similar to that in euthyroid controls

Thyroid

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-59

  De Geyter, Christian ^a,c   Steimann, Sabine ^a   Müller, Beat ^b   Kränzlin, Marius E ^b   Meier, Christian ^b  

^a Women's Hospital   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; LIOTHYRONINE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COHORT STUDIES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 58149240903     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2007.0355     Document Type: Article

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