Maternal hypothyroxinemia during pregnancy and growth of the fetal and infant head

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1315-1322

  Van Mil, Nina H ^a,b   Steegers Theunissen, Régine P M ^a   Bongers Schokking, Jacoba J ^a   Marroun, Hanan El ^a,b   Ghassabian, Akhgar ^a,b   Hofman, Albert ^a   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a   Visser, Theo J ^a   Verhulst, Frank C ^b   De Rijke, Yolanda B ^a   Steegers, Eric A P ^a   Tiemeier, Henning ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

human fetuses; population based cohort; thyroid hormones; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROXINEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84868580906     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719112450338     Document Type: Article

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