[Iodine intake during pregnancy: effects on thyroid function in mother and child].

Introduction: Recent studies in Spain have shown an inadequate iodine intake in a significant proportion of pregnant women. Pregnancy increases thyroid hormone requirements, and adequate iodine intake is therefore needed.

Material And Methods: One hundred and forty-seven women in their third trimester (week 37) of pregnancy provided a blood sample and a 24-hour urine sample to test serum and urine iodine levels and completed a food frequency questionnaire to assess iodine intake during pregnancy.

Hypothyroxinemia during pregnancy: the effect on neurodevelopment in the child.

Context: Experimental studies have shown that maternal hypothyroxinemia during early pregnancy is associated with poor neurodevelopment in affected offspring.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of maternal serum free T4 on psychomotor development of offspring.

Materials And Methods: The study involved 147 women in the third trimester (week 37) of pregnancy.

Risk factors for sensorineural hearing loss in children.

In the last decade, tremendous progress has been made very rapidly in the development of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) systems as a major public health initiative. The percentage of infants screened annually in Spain has increased significantly since the EHDI systems have expanded to all autonomic regions. Historically, high risk indicators have been used for the identification of infants who should receive audiological evaluation but who live in geographic locations where universal hearing screening is not yet available, to help identify infants who pass neonatal screening but are at risk of developing delayed-onset hearing loss and to identify infants who may have passed neonatal screening but have mild forms of permanent hearing loss.

Early hearing detection and intervention: 2010 CODEPEH recommendation.

Newborn hearing screening is currently performed routinely in many regional health-care systems in Spain. Despite the remarkable expansion in newborn hearing screening since 2000, its feasibility and the benefits of early identification and intervention, many major challenges still remain. In this article, the Committee for the Early Detection of Hearing Loss (Comisión para la Detección Precoz de la Hipoacusia, CODEPEH) updates the recommendations that are considered important for the future development of early hearing detection and intervention (EDHI) systems in the following points: 1.

[Incidence of congenital heart disease in navarra (1989-1998)].

Introduction And Objectives: Congenital cardiopathies are the most common forms of congenital malformation. They occur in between 5.2 and 12.