Maternal smoking and high BMI disrupt thyroid gland development

BACKGROUND: Maternal lifestyle factors, including smoking and increased body weight, increase risks of adult diseases such as metabolic syndrome and infertility. The fetal thyroid gland is essential for the control of fetal metabolic rate, cardiac output, and brain development. Altered fetal thyroid...

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Published in:BMC Med
Main Authors: Filis, Panagiotis, Hombach-Klonisch, Sabine, Ayotte, Pierre, Nagrath, Nalin, Soffientini, Ugo, Klonisch, Thomas, O’Shaughnessy, Peter, Fowler, Paul A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198368/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30348172
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1183-7
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