EFFECTS OF MATERNAL BLOOD LEAD IN THE PRENATAL PERIOD ON NEWBORNS AND THE SPECIFICS OF THE CONDITION AT BIRTH.

The study aimed to study the aspects of the impact of lead in newborns in the perinatal period.Clusters of 354 pregnant women and newborns were studied. Determination of the lead index in the venous blood of pregnant women was carried out and their results were analyzed at birth.

[The function of thyroid gland during the course of pregnancy].

The influence of pregnancy on the function of thyroid gland on the one hand and the influence of dysfunction of this organ on duration of pregnancy on the other is a common and topical problem in medicine. For the study of this correlation, 77 pregnant women have been examined, 45 of which suffered from the thyroid gland dysfunction of different levels. According to the level of iodine excretion acute insufficiency has not been detected among the observed pregnant women; 7 (9%) of them had medium insufficiency and 14 (18%) suffered from moderate lack of iodine.