Frequency of Thyroid Dysfunction in Healthy Pregnant Women

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the frequency of thyroid dysfunction in healthy women during pregnancy. Study Design: Descriptive cross sectional study.

Place and Duration of Study: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics Unit 1, Nishtar Hospital, Multan from 6-1-2016 to 6-7-2016.

Methodology: It was a descriptive cross-sectional study done in Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics Unit 1 Nishtar Hospital and included 451 pregnant women. The participants who were found to have some abnormality in TSH were further evaluated for levels of T3 and T4. The outcome variable that is frequency of thyroid dysfunction was recorded by researcher on Performa. All the data was analyzed by using SPSS-23.

Results: The Mean age of the study participants was 27.87±4.76 years. The Mean parity was 2.88±0.99 and Mean gravidity was 3.96±0.95. Most of expecting ladies307 (68.1%) were at parity of 1–4. The Mean Value of gestational age of participants was 20.25±4.30 weeks with minimum of 13 weeks and maximum of about 26 weeks. 90 (20.0%) cases were found to be Euthyroid. There were 94 (20.8 %) cases of subclinical hypothyroidism and 54 (12.0%) cases of subclinical hyperthyroidism.

Conclusion: The frequency of thyroid problems is alarmingly high according to results of our study. Subclinical hypothyroidism was found to have marked association with increasing age of mother, high parity of mother, and gestational age.