Endocrinology and Gynecology

Women’s Health

Hormones have many important effects on women’s health. The female sex hormones, estrogen and progesterone, are most well-known because their influence on a woman’s reproductive health, from menstruation to pregnancy to menopause and more

Primary care providers, endocrinologists and obstetricians have been challenged with the question of whether to screen all pregnant women for thyroid disease. The debate springs primarily from unknown clinical implications of subclinical thyroid disease during pregnancy.