Thyroid screening in the newborn: Utah experience.
Since 1979, the State Department of Health Laboratory of Utah has screened 108,256 newborn infants for hypothyroidism. The incidence of diagnosed hypothyroid children during this period was 1 per 3,800 live births. Utilizing a normal range of serum thyroid hormone levels in newborn infants of 8.0 to 26.0 micrograms per dl, the incidence of normal infants initially considered hypothyroid was less than one percent. A review of our three years experience is presented.
D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000175:diagnosis; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012016:Reference Values; D013972:Thyrotropin / Q000097:blood; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000097:blood; D013975:Thyroxine-Binding Proteins / Q000172:deficiency; D014284:Triiodothyronine / Q000097:blood; D014589:Utah
D013975:Thyroxine-Binding Proteins; D014284:Triiodothyronine; D013972:Thyrotropin; D013974:Thyroxine