Early pregnancy thyroid hormone reference ranges in Chilean women: the influence of body mass index

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 942-948

  Mosso, Lorena ^a   Martínez, Alejandra ^a   Rojas, María Paulina ^a   Latorre, Gonzalo ^a   Margozzini, Paula ^a   Lyng, Trinidad ^a   Carvajal, Jorge ^a   Campusano, Claudia ^a   Arteaga, Eugenio ^a   Boucai, Laura ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILEAN; CONSULTATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; CHILE; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994341227     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cen.13127     Document Type: Article

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