HYPOTHYROID PREVALENCE DURING PREGNANCY IN LAST ONE DECADE IN INDIA

Abstract

Hypothyroidism during pregnancy is the most commonly found endocrine disorder. Its effect during pregnancy has widely been studied among women to understand the pathophysiology, outcomes, and prevalence. We collected data from several studies of last One Decade from separately studied population among all across the country regarding hypothyroid abundance. We compared more than 61 online available studies for the validation of data prevalence and to understand the status of associated risks to the mother and child in current scenario. Various risks like preeclampsia, preterm labor, anemia, IUGR, spontaneous birth, still birth, low birth weight infants, have been claimed associated in more than thirty ve studies from the nation, few of them also lighted shed on developmental disorders in neonates born under such conditions. This study conserves biggest data of 43,282 women studied for such condition. Here we found 6,952 women effected by hypothyroid, which makes an average prevalence of 14.2% and it ranges from 2.5% (lowest) - 33.82% (highest) in different places in pregnant women. This gure is higher than the reported global prevalence. These studies also found increased number of bad obstetric outcome for antenatal and postnatal risks in mothers. To prevent consequences universal screening should be acquired.