Isolated maternal hypothyroxinemia during pregnancy: Knowns and unknowns

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2017, Pages R21-R38

  Dosiou, Chrysoula ^a   Medici, Marco ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; IODINE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; THIOCYANATE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROXINE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHINA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FETAL BRAIN; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY; ITALY; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL HYPOTHYROXINEMIA; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POLLUTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEIZURE; SPAIN; THAILAND; THYROID DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85002292139     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-16-0354     Document Type: Review

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