Joris A J Osinga, Yindi Liu, Tuija Männistö, Marina Vafeiadi, Fang-Biao Tao, Bijay Vaidya, Tanja G M Vrijkotte, Lorena Mosso, Judit Bassols, Abel López-Bermejo, Laura Boucai, Ashraf Aminorroaya, Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen, Aya Hisada, Jun Yoshinaga, Maarten A C Broeren, Sachiko Itoh, Reiko Kishi, Ghalia Ashoor, Liangmiao Chen, Flora Veltri, Xuemian Lu, Peter N Taylor, Suzanne J Brown, Leda Chatzi, Polina V Popova, Elena N Grineva, Farkhanda Ghafoor, Amna Pirzada, Maryam Kianpour, Emily Oken, Eila Suvanto, Andrew Hattersley, Marisa Rebagliato, Isolina Riaño-Galán, Amaia Irizar, Martine Vrijheid, Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, Ana Fernández-Somoano, Loreto Santa-Marina, Kristien Boelaert, Gabriela Brenta, Rima Dhillon-Smith, Chrysoula Dosiou, Jennifer L Eaton, Haixia Guan, Sun Y Lee, Spyridoula Maraka, Lilah F Morris-Wiseman, Caroline T Nguyen, Zhongyan Shan, Mònica Guxens, Victor J M Pop, John P Walsh, Kypros H Nicolaides, Mary E D'Alton, W Edward Visser, David M Carty, Christian Delles, Scott M Nelson, Erik K Alexander, Layal Chaker, Glenn E Palomaki, Robin P Peeters, Sofie Bliddal, Kun Huang, Kris G Poppe, Elizabeth N Pearce, Arash Derakhshan, Tim I M Korevaar
Background: International guidelines recommend targeted screening to identify gestational thyroid dysfunction. However, currently used risk factors have questionable discriminative ability. We quantified the risk for thyroid function test abnormalities for a subset of risk factors currently used in international guidelines. Methods: We included prospective cohort studies with data on gestational maternal thyroid function and potential risk factors (maternal age, body mass index [BMI], parity, smoking status, pregnancy through in vitro fertilization, twin pregnancy, gestational age, maternal education, and thyroid peroxidase antibody [TPOAb] or thyroglobulin antibody [TgAb] positivity)...
March 28, 2024: Thyroid: Official Journal of the American Thyroid Association