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Article: Association issues statement on early maternal thyroidal insufficiency.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- May 31, 2004
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2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The following statement was released recently by the American Thyroid Association:
For over 100 years, it has been clear that adequate maternal iodine nutrition and, more recently, adequate maternal thyroid hormone is necessary during and after pregnancy to assure the health of the mother and her offspring. Adequate maternal iodine nutrition must be maintained during pregnancy to meet the increased demand for thyroid hormone production that occurs with pregnancy.
Maternal iodine supplies in the United States and in most of the developed world are now sufficient to prevent the occurrence of cretinism and severe ...