Evaluation of Serum Thyroid Hormones and its Effect/Complications During Pregnancy

Thyroid hormone viz, triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) plays an important role during pregnancy to both the mother and fetus. This study included 60 pregnant women enrolled in the Al_ Batool teaching hospital in February to July 2019. The enrolled patients are between the age group between 25-35 years. The fasting blood was collected in the plain vacutainers from the vein after getting participant oral consent. Serum were used to evaluate the serum T3, T4 and TSH level. About 96.72%response rate was observed. The average respondent age was 27.37±3.52 years. About 36 (60%) and24 (40%) women were included in the age group of 25-30 and 30-35 years, respectively. About 82.32% women were under overt hypothyroidism category i.e. they showed increased levels of TSH as compared to the healthy pregnant women. The serum TSH levels were found to be 7.076±2.01mIU/ml and 4.146±0.37mIU/ml in thyroid hormone deficiency (TD) and normal groups, respectively. In the TD groups, about 80.32% women showed a caesarean delivery while about 97.45% women showed normal delivery. Normal delivery time takes about 39.22±0.34 weeks while TD groups showed a premature delivery at about 36.64±1.93 weeks. Iraqi women showed overt hypothyroidism. This abnormal levels of the thyroid hormones can be lead to miscarriage caesarean delivery with high weight infants.