Thyroid function in pregnancy: What is normal?

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 704-713

  Medici, Marco ^a   Korevaar, Tim I M ^a   Visser, W Edward ^a   Visser, Theo J ^a   Peeters, Robin P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN;

BODY MASS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; REFERENCE VALUE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SHORT SURVEY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STANDARD; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 84929009169     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.236646     Document Type: Short Survey

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