Incidencia de hipotiroidismo en mujeres embarazadas del servicio de ginecología del Hospital IESS Riobamba en el período marzo – agosto 2014.

Abstract

The thyroid disease is the most common endocrinology variation in pregnant woman after gestational diabetes; with an incidence of 5-10% of all pregnancies, which the most common is the hypothyroidism, the hyperthyroidism and the thyroid nodule. The clinical and subclinical hypothyroidism, represent about 2-3% of the pregnancies, representing a wide unspecified symptomatology often confused with physiologic changes of pregnancy, and it is necessary a screening of thyroid hormones for its diagnosis, in which the TSH levels, is not the same as the non-pregnant woman whose treatment implies higher dosage. The objective of this study is to determinate the incidence of hypothyroidism in pregnant woman at the gynecology department of the Hospital Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS) from Riobamba city during march-august 2014. This is an observational study, descriptive, transversal, non-experimental where medical records of the pregnant woman were investigated. After finish this study ahs determinate that the women hypothyroidism incidence reaches the 13,02%, which 70,21% corresponds to a pregnant women diagnosed for first time, but the 29,79% were diagnosed before pregnancy. Moreover the 93,62% corresponds to the subclinical hypothyroidism. And the most common comorbidity is the threat of early termination of pregnancy.