Free thyroxine in early pregnancy and risk of developing gestational diabetes

ABSTRACT

Background: Pregnancy has a considerable physiological impact on the thyroid gland and its metabolic unction and to meet the increased demands during pregnancy. Thyroid disease is known to impact pregnancy outcomes, and gestational diabetes is the most common obstetric metabolic disease. Both of these conditions can cause short- and long-term harm to the mother and child, and an increasing number of scholars have therefore begun to investigate whether there is a correlation between thyroid disease and GDM