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[A thyroid function study in subjects with Down's syndrome]
A Castro Lobera1, R Linares García-Valdecasas
1Delegación Provincial de Sanidad de Albacete.
Objective:
The main objective is to know the application degree of Spanish Health Program for Down Syndrome People respect to thyroid function. The secondary objective is to know the thyroid pathology in our population.
Design:
Observational, descriptive and crossover study.
Setting:
Primary care teams in collaboration with endocrinology services.
Participants:
Down syndrome people who lived in Albacete in 1993.
Measurements And Main Results:
Survey to Down syndrome parents. Determination of thyroid hormones: T3, T4 and TSH, and thyroid autoantibodies (thyroglobulin and microsomal autoantibodies).
Results:
15.5% of our population had been done thyroid analysis before this study. The prevalence of thyroid pathology is 50.6% of the studied population.
Conclusions:
Due to low application of this program and its usefulness in thyroid pathology detection, we think that its should be used in primary care.