Robin P. Peeters

TL;DR: The revised guidelines for the management of thyroid disease in pregnancy include recommendations regarding the interpretation of thyroid function tests in pregnancy, iodine nutrition, thyroid autoantibodies and pregnancy complications, thyroid considerations in infertile women, hypothyroidism in pregnancy and thyrotoxicosis in pregnancy.

TL;DR: The rationale of the study and its design is given, and a summary of the major findings and an update of the objectives and methods are presented.

TL;DR: It is concluded that levothyroxine should remain the standard of care for treating hypothyroidism and no consistently strong evidence for the superiority of alternative preparations is found.

TL;DR: Subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) should be considered in two categories according to the elevation in serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level: mildly increased TSH levels (4.0-10.0 mU/l) and more severelyincreased TSH value (>10 m U/l).

TL;DR: The rationale of the study and its design is given, a summary of the major findings and an update of the objectives and methods are presented and the cohort is being expanded by persons aged 40 years and over.