A STUDY OF PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF THYROID DISORDER DURING PREGNANCY AT MUZAFFARPUR, BIHAR

Abstract

To study prevalence and incidence of thyroid disorders in pregnancy at Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital, Muzaffarpur, Bihar. This was a prospective cross sectional study done on 535 pregnant women at department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Sri Krishna Medical College Hospital, Muzaffarpur, Bihar for duration of six months. The prevalence of thyroid disorders during pregnancy was 35.2 % and incidence was 23.98 % in our study. Signicant number of overt hypothyroid cases were detected among rural people (P – 0.003). There was signicant difference of incidence of euthyroid (P – 0.173) and SCHTh (P - 0.195) cases at different age groups. There were also signicant number of cases with goitre (P - ฀0.001) and TPOAb (P – ฀0.001) in different patient groups.