Assessment of environmental risk factors effects on hypothyroidism in pregnant women

Background & Aims of the Study: The purpose of this study, was association ofenvironmental factors of hypothyroidism in pregnant women in Abadan during 2016.Materials and Methods: In this descriptive research, 600 women were chosen according torandom – stratified sampling. For this purpose at first an information form had been made thenthe files of pregnant women were checked to realize whether they have Hypothyroidism or not.After this they were asked to visit health centers to fill up the questionnaire at the appointed day.After filling up the questionnaire by each person, the interviewer give a code to eachquestionnaire related to the person and the center she visited and the information provided byeach questionnaire was entered in SPSS according to the coding.Results: The results showed that approximately environmental factors are one of the mostimportant affects in accelerating of hypothyroidism in pregnant women. According results of thisstudy, there is a meaningful relation between hypothyroidism and factors, smoking, air pollution,allergy and radiotherapy.Conclusion: Finding this study showed that many of the environmental factors that are indicatedin pregnancy references as risks for hypothyroidism were seen in Abadan pregnant women andsome of the factors are more common in healthy women. As result, it’s necessary to doexaminations before pregnancy to control the situation.

Keywords:

Environmental , Risk factors , Pregnant women , Abadan , Iran