Thyroid Diseases in Live-Born Children as Function of Radioiodine Exposure
| No. with: | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor (overall population) | No. of live births | Total no. of thyroid diseases | Hypothyroidism | Graves' disease/hyperthyroidism | Euthyroid goiter | Benign nodule | Differentiated thyroid cancer | Nonresectable nodule |
| Before any treatment | 1,633 | 34 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
| After surgery for thyroid cancer | 376 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Cumulative radioiodine activity before conception (MBq) | ||||||||
| 0 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| <370 | 121 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 370–3,700 | 49 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| >3,700 | 139 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Radioiodine activity during year before conception (MBq) | ||||||||
| 0 | 290 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| <370 | 73 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ≥370 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |