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Thyroid Disease and Pregnancy Brochure
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http://thyroid.org/patients/patient_brochures/pregnancy.html
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nkharrufa
18 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 15 hours agoA normal pregnancy results in a number of important physiological and hormonal changes that alter thyroid function. These changes mean that laboratory tests of thyroid function must be interpreted with caution during pregnancy. Thyroid function tests change during pregnancy due to the influence of two main hormones: human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), the hormone that is measured in the pregnancy test and estrogen, the main female hormone. HCG can weakly turn on the thyroid and the high circulati
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