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Prevalence of subclinical hypothyroidism in pregnancy in Saudi Arabia

Shatha A. Al Shanqeeti, Yasser N. Alkhudairy, Alwaleed A. Alabdulwahed, Anwar E. Ahmed, Maysoon S. Al-Adham and Naveed M. Mahmood
Saudi Medical Journal March 2018, 39 (3) 254-260; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.3.21621
Shatha A. Al Shanqeeti
From the College of Medicine (Al Shanqeeti), King Saud University, the College of Medicine (Alkhudairy), Almaarefa Colleges, the College of Medicine (Alabdulwahed), Alfaisal University, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ahmed), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Adham), King Abdulaziz Medical City, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Mahmood), King Abdulaziz Medical City for National Guard, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Yasser N. Alkhudairy
From the College of Medicine (Al Shanqeeti), King Saud University, the College of Medicine (Alkhudairy), Almaarefa Colleges, the College of Medicine (Alabdulwahed), Alfaisal University, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ahmed), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Adham), King Abdulaziz Medical City, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Mahmood), King Abdulaziz Medical City for National Guard, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Alwaleed A. Alabdulwahed
From the College of Medicine (Al Shanqeeti), King Saud University, the College of Medicine (Alkhudairy), Almaarefa Colleges, the College of Medicine (Alabdulwahed), Alfaisal University, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ahmed), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Adham), King Abdulaziz Medical City, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Mahmood), King Abdulaziz Medical City for National Guard, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Anwar E. Ahmed
From the College of Medicine (Al Shanqeeti), King Saud University, the College of Medicine (Alkhudairy), Almaarefa Colleges, the College of Medicine (Alabdulwahed), Alfaisal University, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ahmed), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Adham), King Abdulaziz Medical City, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Mahmood), King Abdulaziz Medical City for National Guard, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Maysoon S. Al-Adham
From the College of Medicine (Al Shanqeeti), King Saud University, the College of Medicine (Alkhudairy), Almaarefa Colleges, the College of Medicine (Alabdulwahed), Alfaisal University, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ahmed), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Adham), King Abdulaziz Medical City, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Mahmood), King Abdulaziz Medical City for National Guard, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Naveed M. Mahmood
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vol. 39 no. 3 254-260
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.3.21621
PubMed 
29543303

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 12, 2017
  • Accepted January 24, 2018
  • Published online March 1, 2018.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Shatha A. Al Shanqeeti, MBBS⇑,
  2. Yasser N. Alkhudairy,
  3. Alwaleed A. Alabdulwahed,
  4. Anwar E. Ahmed, PhD,
  5. Maysoon S. Al-Adham, MD and
  6. Naveed M. Mahmood, MD
  1. From the College of Medicine (Al Shanqeeti), King Saud University, the College of Medicine (Alkhudairy), Almaarefa Colleges, the College of Medicine (Alabdulwahed), Alfaisal University, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Ahmed), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Adham), King Abdulaziz Medical City, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Mahmood), King Abdulaziz Medical City for National Guard, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Shatha A. Al Shanqeeti, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: shathashanqeeti{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4691-5743
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