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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

3 Thyroid

Maternal thyroid disease during pregnancy

ey0015.3-6 | Maternal thyroid disease during pregnancy | ESPEYB15

3.6 Maternal thyroid function and child educational attainment: prospective cohort study

SM Nelson , C Haig , A Mc Connachie , N Sattar , SM Ring , GD Smith , DA Lawlor , RS Lindsay

To read the full abstract: BMJ 2018;360:k452The role of thyroid hormones during early gestation is well established by animal studies. In humans, previous studies have shown that maternal hypothyroxinemia was associated with either an early reduction in psychomotor scales (e.g. Bayley scale of infant development) or later in late infancy or adolescence. However, randomized controlled trials on...