The complex relationship between pregnancy and thyroid function, and its clinical effect on mother and baby, continued to stimulate research in 2011. Key advances were made on three important issues: how long maternal thyroid function affects fetal thyroid hormone levels; whether thyroid autoimmunity affects pregnancy outcome; and the prevalence of permanent hypothyroidism after postpartum thyroiditis.
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Weetman, A. Thyroid function—effects on mother and baby unraveled. Nat Rev Endocrinol 8, 69–70 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2011.217
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