Downstream effects of maternal
hypothyroxinemia in early pregnancy: nonverbal IQ and brain morphology in school-age children.
In the second, but not the first, trimester, isolated
hypothyroxinemia was significantly related to increased GDM risk (adjusted odds ratio, 2.97 comparing hypothyroxinemic with euthyroid women).
Treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism or
hypothyroxinemia in pregnancy.
Iodine deficiency during pregnancy has been associated with maternal
hypothyroxinemia that is related to growth, cognitive, and psychomotor deficit in neonates, infants, and children [6].
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As there is no benefit in treatment of isolated maternal
hypothyroxinemia, universal FT4 screening during preconception is not recommended.
Autism: transient in utero
hypothyroxinemia related to maternal flavonoid ingestion during pregnancy and to other environmental antithyroid agents.
ATLANTA -- Prenatal treatment of maternal subclinical hypothyroidism or
hypothyroxinemia conferred no cognitive, behavioral, or neurodevelopmental benefit to children up to age 5.
Even though there is a state of
hypothyroxinemia in normal pregnancy, it is more pronounced in pre-eclampsia.