Assessment of thyroid function during first-trimester pregnancy: What is the rational upper limit of serum TSH during the first trimester in chinese pregnant women?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-79

  Li, Chenyan ^a   Shan, Zhongyan ^a   Mao, Jinyuan ^a   Wang, Weiwei ^a   Xie, Xiaochen ^a   Zhou, Weiwei ^b   Li, Chenyang ^b   Xu, Bin ^c   Bi, Lihua ^d   Meng, Tao ^a   Du, Jianling ^e   Zhang, Shaowei ^c   Gao, Zhengnan ^e   Zhang, Xiaomei ^f   Yang, Liu ^g   Fan, Chenling ^a   Teng, Weiping ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shenyang Women's and Children's Hospital   (China)

^c No 202 Hospital of PLA   (China)

^d Center for Reproductive Medicine   (China)

^e DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f First Hospital of Dandong City   (China)

^g Shenyang Women and Children Health Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROTROPIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892151741     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2013-1674     Document Type: Article

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