Maternal smoking and high BMI disrupt thyroid gland development

Maternal lifestyle factors, including smoking and increased body weight, increase risks of adult diseases such as metabolic syndrome and infertility. The fetal thyroid gland is essential for the control of fet...

Source: BMC Medicine - October 23, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Panagiotis Filis, Sabine Hombach-Klonisch, Pierre Ayotte, Nalin Nagrath, Ugo Soffientini, Thomas Klonisch, Peter O ’Shaughnessy and Paul A. Fowler Tags: Research article Source Type: research