Assessment Of Normal Range Of Thyroid Functions In Healthy Egyptian Pregnant Women

Abstract

Modern studies describe thyroid disease as the second most frequent endocrine disorder that can affect women in their reproductive age. When thyroid disease remains untreated in a pregnant woman some disorders can appear (Moncayo, et al., 2015). Aim of our work is Assessment of normal range of thyroid functions (TSH, free T3 and free T4) in healthy pregnant Egyptian women with negative Anti-Tpo antibodies in the three trimesters. The lack of standardizations of free thyroid hormone measurements makes it difficult to apply a universally accepted standard reference value for it. Thus, it was necessary to develop our own normal values. This study was done in the Obstetric clinic at Ain-Shams University Hospital at 2016, it is a randomized cross sectional study designed to analyze data from 360 apparently healthy pregnant women in Egypt, which were divided into 3 groups according to gestational age.