[Thyroid diseases in reproductive-age women living in Shoria mountains].
OBJECTIVE
To analyze prevalence and structure of thyroid pathology in women of reproductive age living in Shoria mountains.


METHODS
The examination of 409 women aged 18 to 40 living in mountain Shoria included assessment of social status, heredity, actual nutrition, visit to endocrinologist, ultrasound investigation of the thyroid, tests for thyroid hormones (TTH, T3, T4) in the serum, antibodies to microsomal fractions, iodine concentrations in the morning urine.


RESULTS
Significant prevalence of thyroid diseases (62.3%), high rate of diffuse nontoxic goiter of the second degree (18.0%), nodular nontoxic goiter (11.8%), autoimmune thyroiditis (6.3%), hypothyroidism (5.5%), low median of iodine excretion with urine in women refer mountain Shoria to the zone of goiter endemia.


CONCLUSIONS
Among migrants thyroid morbidity is significantly higher than among the native population. Eradication of goiter endemia will promote reproductive health in this region.
Kvitkova
L V
LV
Ushakova
G A
GA
Shchetinina
E V
EV
Ogarkov
M Iu
MIu
Cherniavskaia
E Iu
EIu
Polikutina
O M
OM
Kazachek
Ia V
IaV
Barbarash
O L
OL
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D019353:Endemic Diseases / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007455:Iodine / Q000652:urine; D015995:Prevalence; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012800:Siberia / Q000453:epidemiology; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000378:metabolism; D013963:Thyroid Hormones / Q000097:blood; D014463:Ultrasonography
D013963:Thyroid Hormones; D007455:Iodine