Learning from POSTAL study: can levothyroxine improve pregnancy outcomes in women with thyroid autoimmunity? / 中华内分泌代谢杂志
Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
; (12): 359-361, 2018.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-709949
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WPRO
ABSTRACT
Whether levothyroxine ( LT4 ) treatment improves outcomes following in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer ( IVF-ET) in euthyroid women who have tested positive for thyroid autoantibodies remains unclear. In Pregnancy Outcome Study in enthyroid women with Thyroid Autoimmunity after Levothyroxine ( POSTAL) trial, which was a randomized controlled study involving 600 euthyroid women undergoing IVF-ET who were tested positive for thyroperoxidase antibodies, the miscarriage rate, clinical pregnancy rate and live-birth rate were not significantly different between the LT4 intervention group and control group. Therefore, LT4 treatment did not appear to improve pregnancy outcomes among women with thyroid autoantibodies undergoing IVF-ET.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Type of study:
Controlled clinical trial
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Year:
2018
Document type:
Article