Open AccessAbortion may be associated with elevated risk of future hypothyroidism
Author(s) -
Vivek Chauhan,
Anurag Thakur,
Gurudutt Sharma
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of critical illness and injury science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2231-5004
pISSN - 2229-5151
DOI - 10.4103/ijciis.ijciis_43_17
Subject(s) - medicine , abortion , euthyroid , odds ratio , pregnancy , obstetrics , case control study , anti thyroid autoantibodies , gynecology , thyroid , autoantibody , antibody , immunology , genetics , biology
Fetal microchimerism during pregnancy and abortion has been linked with autoimmune hypothyroidism in females. We conducted a case-control study to investigate the odds of "abortion in the past" in the newly diagnosed hypothyroid females compared to their age-matched euthyroid controls.