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Maternal thyroid function in pregnancy — a tale of two tails

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A new study shows that low and high maternal levels of free T4 during pregnancy are associated with reduced IQ and cortex and grey matter volumes in offspring. Do these findings herald change for the clinical management of pregnant women with borderline low or high normal levels of T4?

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  • 18 December 2015

    In the original published article, the sentence “Another concern is that despite exquisite control for multiple confounders, the analysis did not adjust for sex of the child, even though sex is known to be associated with both nonverbal abilities and brain size,” should not have been included. This error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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  1. University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1601 Parkview Avenue, Rockford, 61107, Illinois, USA

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  2. The Hospital for Sick Children, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, M5G0A4, Ontario, Canada

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Stagnaro-Green, A., Rovet, J. Maternal thyroid function in pregnancy — a tale of two tails. Nat Rev Endocrinol 12, 10–11 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2015.212

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